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1) Animal farm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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A satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government
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Series
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
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From the author of 1984, George Orwell narrates the journey of a writer among the down-and-out in two great cities in this sobering, truthful portrayal of poverty and society.
Famous for its realistic and unsentimental description of poverty, Down and Out in London and Paris follows the adventures of a penniless British writer who finds himself rapidly descending into the seedy heart of two great European capitals....
Famous for its realistic and unsentimental description of poverty, Down and Out in London and Paris follows the adventures of a penniless British writer who finds himself rapidly descending into the seedy heart of two great European capitals....
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Language
English
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"Keep the Aspidistra Flying", first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 385 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
George Orwell's classic satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government is accompanied by "1984," his portrayal of life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
677 pages: illustrations; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The lushly descriptive and tragic Burmese Days, a devastating indictment of British colonial rule, is based on Orwell?s own experience while serving in the Indian Imperial Police. His beloved satirical classic, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, features a young idealist whose attempt to rebel against middle-class respectability?by working in a bookshop and trying to be a writer?goes terribly and comically awry. The hero of Coming Up for Air tries to escape...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
224 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"With evocative, immersive art from Fido Nesti, this vision of George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece provides a new perspective for longtime fans but is also an accessible entry point for young readers and adults who have yet to discover the iconic storythat is still so relevant today"--
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2019,©2019.
Physical Desc
175 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Esta sátira de la Revolución rusa y el triunfo del estalinismo, escrita en 1945, se ha convertido por derecho propio en un hito de la cultura contemporánea y en uno de los libros más mordaces de todos los tiempos. Ante el auge de los animales de la Granja Solariega, pronto detectamos las semillas del totalitarismo en una organización aparentemente ideal; y en nuestros líderes más carismáticos, la sombra de los opresores más crueles. El artista...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Pub. Corporation
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
560 pages ; cm
Language
English
Description
A compilation of personal letters creates an autobiography of the author of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" through his correspondence with other literary luminaries, including T.S. Elliot and Henry Miller, as well as letters to complete strangers.
13) Animal farm
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (72 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of farm animals successfully revolt against their cruel human owner, only to be enslaved anew by the unscrupulous pig Napolean, whose slogan is "all animals are equal but some animals more equal than others."
14) 1984: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Portrays a terrifying vision of life in the future when a totalitarian government, considered a "Negative Utopia," watches over all citizens and directs all activities, becoming more powerful as time goes by.
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Language
English
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Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's brutally honest account of his experience as a militiaman during the Spanish Civil War.
In the last days of 1936, Spain was five months into a bitter civil war, in which volunteers from many countries were helping the elected government of the Spanish Republic battle a military coup led by General Francisco Franco and backed by Hitler and Mussolini. Some foreigners flocking to Spain had come for another reason:...
16) 1984
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Series
Language
Español
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"El Hermano Mayor te vigila', advierten los carteles que cubren las paredes de Londres. La libertad de expresión ha desaparecido y a los ciudadanos de un 'lugar que alguna vez fue llamado Inglaterra' no se les permite ejercer el pensamiento crítico. Se habla entre susurros, fingiendo las expresiones, y se vive con un temor constante a la Policía del Pensamiento. En ese contexto, Winston Smith, funcionario del Ministerio de la Verdad, recibe el...
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Language
English
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April, 1947. In a run-down farmhouse on a remote Scottish island, George Orwell begins his last and greatest work: Nineteen Eighty-Four. Forty-three years old and suffering from the tuberculosis that within three winters will take his life, Orwell comes to see the book as his legacy―the culmination of a career spent fighting to preserve the freedoms which the wars and upheavals of the twentieth century have threatened. Completing the book is an...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's--Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line...
19) George Orwell
Author
Series
Publisher
F. Ungar Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1973
Physical Desc
ix, 149 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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