June 2010
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Coming Up for Air: A Plot Summary
The themes of George Orwell’s Coming Up for Air include nostalgia, the folly of looking to go back again and recapture past glories plus the quick way the dreams and aspirations of one’s youth might be smothered with the humdrum regimen of perform, marriage and receiving outdated. It really is composed inside 1st man or woman, with George Bowling, the forty-five-year-old protagonist,...
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A Synopsis of "A Clergyman's Daughter" By George...
In A Clergyman’s Daughter, George Orwell introduces you to the lifestyle of Dorothy Hare, the weak-willed daughter of your disagreeable widowed clergyman. Her father is Rector of Knype Hill, a modest provincial East Anglian town. She keeps property for him, fends off the trade creditors, visits parishioners and tends to make costumes for fund-raising events. All of the time she practises...
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A Synopsis of George Orwell's Burmese Days
Burmese Days is fixed in 1920s imperial Burma, in the fictional district of Kyauktada. For the reason that story opens, U Po Kyin, a corrupt Burmese magistrate is planning to destroy the reputation on the Indian medical doctor - Dr. Veraswami. The Doctor’s main protection is his association with James Flory who, as being a pukka sahib (European white man), has larger reputation. U Po Kyin...
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George Orwell: A Biography
Eric Blair was born in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, inside then British colony of India, in which his father, Richard, worked to the Opium Department on the Civil Provider. His mother, Ida, brought him to England for the age of one particular. He did not see his father yet again until finally 1907, when Richard visited England for 3 months ahead of leaving yet again until finally 1912. Eric received...
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George Orwell: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
As Keep the Aspidistra Flying starts out, Gordon Comstock has ‘declared war’ on what he sees as an ‘overarching dependence’ on dollars by leaving a promising employment as being a copywriter for an advertising firm named ‘New Albion’—at which he shows good dexterity—and having a low-paying employment instead, ostensibly so he can write poetry. Coming from a...
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George Orwell Animal Farm Synopsis
The creatures of Manor Farm are gathering in the big barn. Old Major is the farm’s prize winning boar, who requested all the other animals to come to the meeting so that he could tell them about a near prophetic vision he had. In his dream, their abusive human overlords are gone and the animals are living peacefully together. Old Major tells all the animals that they should try to make his...
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1984 Plot Synopsis
George Orwell 1984 starts off by introducing Winston Smith is often a low-ranking representative on the ruling Bash in London, inside nation of Oceania. Everywhere Winston goes, even his personal household, the Bash watches him by way of telescreens; everywhere he looks he sees the face on the Party’s seemingly omniscient leader, a figure acknowledged only as Major Brother. The Bash controls...
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May 2010
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George Orwell Books » Keep the Aspidistra Flying →
Writing in the very best of his satirical vein, George Orwell tells the story of Gordon Comstock, a failing poet who decides to battle the luring power of money by living in a constant state of poverty. Forgoing a promising job for low wage work in a shabby London bookstore, Gordon spends his nights shivering in a rented room trying to write. He is determined to stay free of the “money world” of...
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George Orwell Books » Burmese Days →
This brutally honest and evocative novel from Orwell focuses on a group of Englishmen who spend a large portion of their time meeting at the European Club, where they drink whiskey and attempt to relieve the unrelenting lonliness of life in Burma during the last days of British Imperialism. One man, James Flory, sees more clearly the futility of England’s rule over Burma than the rest but lacks...
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This brutally honest and evocative novel from Orwell focuses on a group of Englishmen who spend a large portion of their time meeting at the European Club, where they drink whiskey and attempt to relieve the unrelenting lonliness of life in Burma during the last days of British Imperialism. One man, James Flory, sees more clearly the futility of England’s rule over Burma than the rest but lacks...
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George Orwell 1984 →
George Orwell 1984 dot Com features chapter summaries, character list, analysis’, and other notes from the classic dystopian novel. Check out www.georgeorwell1984.com today!
Working on a new sister site for georgeorwellbooks.net devoted entirely to 1984! Will feature chapter summaries, analysis, and more. Stay tuned, we should be launching around the end of the week!
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“By any standards, a work of rare vigor and imagination…Confirms one’s estimate of Mr. Orwell as a major prophet among the world’s still lively minority of thinking men.” -The New York Herald-Tribune Book Review
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George Orwell Animal Farm →
Animal Farm is a classic. Who didn’t write a book report on this in school? Either way, if you’re a fan of Orwell it is a must have!
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George Orwell 1984 →
1984 is without a doubt my favorite novel by Orwell. The dystopic atmosphere surrounding thought crime, double think, and big brother makes the story nothing short of epic!
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