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| George Orwell's celebrated and always timely 1948 vision of a world subsumed in tyranny and war describes the process of events by which Winston Smith, a London clerk at the Ministry of Truth, comes to understand the true nature and aims of the government he works for, and portrays his doomed attempt to create a private life for himself and his lover, Julia. One of the bleakest political novels ever written, 1984 illustrates Orwell's despair that democracy could ever summon the strength to overcome totalitarianism in his lifetime. | |
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| "A book that goes through the reader like an east wind, cracking the skin, opening the sores; hope has died in Mr. Orwell's wintry mind, and only pain is known. I do not think I have ever read a novel more frightening and depressing; and yet, such are the originality, the suspense, the speed of writing and withering indignation that it is impossible to put the book down. The faults of Orwell as a writer--monotony, nagging, the lonely schoolboy shambling down the one dispiriting track--are transformed now he rises to a large subject." New Statesman - V. S. Pritchett (06/18/1949) "'Nineteen Eighty-Four' confirms its author in the special, honorable place he holds in our intellectual life....[I]t is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book....Orwell's theory of power is developed brilliantly, at considerable length. And the social system that it postulates is described with magnificent circumstantiality." New Yorker - Lionel Trilling "[I]t is probable that no other work of this generation has made us desire freedom more earnestly or loathe tyranny with such fulness....It is in the intimate history, of course, that he reveals his stature as a novelist, for it is here that the moral and the psychological values with which he is concerned are brought out of the realm of political prophecy into that of personalized drama....'Nineteen Eighty-Four', the most contemporary novel of this year and who knows of how many past and to come, is a great examination into and dramatization of Lord Acton's famous apothegm, 'Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'" New York Times Book Review - Mark Schorer (06/12/1949) | |
All rights reserved.This is a lot of 5 books. All of them consist of classic literature. The books are: 1984 by George Orwell, Signet Classic PB, preface by Walter Cronkite, 1984 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll, Introduction by C. L. Bennet, 1965, Paperback, small water stain on first and second page but not major. Men at War by Ernest Hemingway, Avon Publishers# G1006 (G 1006) paperback, 1952 Cover price 50 cents. 639 pages. this book is a compilation of 37 war stories by a variety of authors, including: Introduction by Ernest Hemingway; The Battle of Hastings 1066 A.D. by Charles Oman; The Invaders by Richard Hillary;Who Called You Here by Eric Jens Petersen; The French Crusade 1249 - 1250 A.D. by Jean De Joinville; and much much more. This book is in good condition, but needs TLC when handled. Don Quixote, Miquel De Cervantes Saavedra, Paperback, Abridged, 1960, there are some minor water stains but nothing major. Its a nice old copy. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, Paperback. Some minor shelf wear. But in good condition. Reprint of hardcover edition, published in 1958, before movie. Please contact me if you have any questions. Thanks for looking. |
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