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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...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 CDs (600 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
23) George Orwell
Author
Series
Publisher
F. Ungar Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1973
Physical Desc
ix, 149 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
27) Orwell's roses
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fresh take on George Orwell as a far more nature-loving figure than is often portrayed, and a dazzlingly rich meditation on roses, gardens, and the value and use of beauty and pleasure in the face of brutality and horror. "In the spring of 1936 a man planted roses." That man was George Orwell, shortly before he went off to fight against fascism in Spain. Today, those rosebushes are still thriving. This is the starting point for Rebecca Solnit's...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (29 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
English novelist, essayist, and critic, Orwell was born in India where his father was in the civil service. His major works include Animal Farm, 1984, Inside the Whale, The Clergyman's Daughter, Homage to Catalonia, and more.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
451 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A riveting work about the woman who sacrificed her future for one of the most famous writers of the twentieth century and a probing look at what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world. Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, award-winning writer Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own. When she uncovers his forgotten wife,...
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