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Nineteen eighty-four

Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Orwell, George
Verfasser*innenangabe: George Orwell. With an introduction by Thomas Pynchon and a note on the text by Peter Davison
Jahr: 2000
Verlag: London, Penguin
Mediengruppe: Buch
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Summary First published in 1949, George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" has lost none of the impact with which it first hit readers. Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101.Review Review 'It is a volley against the authoritarian in every personality, a polemic against every orthodoxy, an anarchistic blast against every unquestioning conformist... Nineteen Eighty-Four is a great novel and a great tract because of the clarity of its call, and it will endure because its message is a permanent one: erroneous thought is the stuff of freedom'-Ben PimlottBiography Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in 1903 in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. The family moved to England in 1907 and in 1917 Orwell entered Eton, where he contributed regularly to the various college magazines. From 1922 to 1927 he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, an experience that inspired his first novel, Burmese Days (1934). Several years of poverty followed. He lived in Paris for two years before returning to England, where he worked successively as a private tutor, schoolteacher and bookshop assistant, and contributed reviews and articles to a number of periodicals. Down and Out in Paris and London was published in 1933. In 1936 he was commissioned by Victor Gollancz to visit areas of mass unemployment in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) is a powerful description of the poverty he saw there. At the end of 1936 Orwell went to Spain to fight for the Republicans and was wounded. Homage to Catalonia is his account of the civil war. He was admitted to a sanatorium in 1938 and from then on was never fully fit. He spent six months in Morocco and there wrote Coming Up for Air. During the Second World War he served in the Home Guard and worked for the BBC Eastern Service from 1941 to 1943. As literary editor of the Tribune he contributed a regular page of political and literary commentary, and he also wrote for the Observer and later for the Manchester Evening News. His unique political allegory, Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame.

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Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Orwell, George
Verfasser*innenangabe: George Orwell. With an introduction by Thomas Pynchon and a note on the text by Peter Davison
Jahr: 2000
Verlag: London, Penguin
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Systematik: Suche nach dieser Systematik FS.E, DR
Interessenkreis: Suche nach diesem Interessenskreis Englisch [Sprache]
ISBN: 978-0-14-118776-1
2. ISBN: 0-14-118776-X
Beschreibung: xxx, 355 Seiten
Beteiligte Personen: Suche nach dieser Beteiligten Person Pynchon, Thomas; Davison, Peter Hobley
Sprache: Englisch
Abweichender Titel: 1984
Fußnote: Originally published: London : Secker & Warburg, 1949.
Mediengruppe: Buch