Nineteen eighty-four
Title | Nineteen eighty-four PDF eBook |
Author | George Orwell |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2022-11-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
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This is a dystopian social science fiction novel and morality tale. The novel is set in the year 1984, a fictional future in which most of the world has been destroyed by unending war, constant government monitoring, historical revisionism, and propaganda. The totalitarian superstate Oceania, ruled by the Party and known as Airstrip One, now includes Great Britain as a province. The Party uses the Thought Police to repress individuality and critical thought. Big Brother, the tyrannical ruler of Oceania, enjoys a strong personality cult that was created by the party's overzealous brainwashing methods. Winston Smith, the main character, is a hard-working and skilled member of the Ministry of Truth's Outer Party who secretly despises the Party and harbors rebellious fantasies.
1984
Title | 1984 PDF eBook |
Author | George Orwell |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2013-09-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0547249640 |
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life in this edition. “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece, “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.
The Ministry of Truth
Title | The Ministry of Truth PDF eBook |
Author | Dorian Lynskey |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2019-06-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0385544065 |
"Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory.” --George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly timely history of 1984--its literary sources, its composition by Orwell, its deep and lasting effect on the Cold War, and its vast influence throughout world culture at every level, from high to pop. 1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes--Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5--that gain potency with every year. Particularly in 2016, when the election of Donald Trump made it a bestseller ("Ministry of Alternative Facts," anyone?). Its influence has morphed endlessly into novels (The Handmaid's Tale), films (Brazil), television shows (V for Vendetta), rock albums (Diamond Dogs), commercials (Apple), even reality TV (Big Brother). The Ministry of Truth is the first book that fully examines the epochal and cultural event that is 1984 in all its aspects: its roots in the utopian and dystopian literature that preceded it; the personal experiences in wartime Great Britain that Orwell drew on as he struggled to finish his masterpiece in his dying days; and the political and cultural phenomena that the novel ignited at once upon publication and that far from subsiding, have only grown over the decades. It explains how fiction history informs fiction and how fiction explains history.
Northrop Frye's Canadian Literary Criticism and Its Influence
Title | Northrop Frye's Canadian Literary Criticism and Its Influence PDF eBook |
Author | Branko Gorjup |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0802099386 |
Northrop Frye's Canadian Literary Criticism examines the impact of Frye's criticism on Canadian literary scholarship as well as the response of Frye's peers to his articulation of a 'Canadian' criticism.
Reference Sources for Canadian Literary Studies
Title | Reference Sources for Canadian Literary Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Jones |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780802087409 |
Reference Sources for Canadian Literary Studies offers the first full-scale bibliography of writing on and in the field of Canadian literary studies. Approximately one thousand annotated entries are arranged by reference genre, with sub-groupings related to literary genre.
Profiles in Canadian Literature
Title | Profiles in Canadian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey M. Heath |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Authors, Canadian |
ISBN | 9994531239 |
Profiles in Canadian Literature is a wide-ranging series of essays on Canadian authors. Each profile acquaints the reader with the writer's work, providing insight into themes, techniques, and special characteristics, as well as a chronology of the author's life. Finally, there is a bibliography of primary works and criticism that suggests avenues for further study. "I know of no better introduction to these writers, and the studies in question are full of basic information not readily obtainable elsewhere." -U of T Quarterly.
Canadian Writers and Their Works
Title | Canadian Writers and Their Works PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Lecker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Authors, Canadian |
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