George orwell articles
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The Purpose Of War According To George Orwell (1984)
The Purpose Of War According To George Orwell (1984) Some food for thought from George Orwell's '1984' Does anything really ever change? (emphasis ours) The primary aim of modern warfare is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society. From the moment when the machine first made its...
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1984 by George Orwell audiobook review – a starry cast drive this powerful dramatisation
Tom Hardy, Cynthia Erivo and Andrew Scott conjure menace and melodrama in this 75th-anniversary remake of Orwell’s classicAudible has been pushing the boat out lately with its dramatisations of literary classics, and this adaptation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, marking 75 years since it was published, is a dark delight. Andrew Garfield leads a starry cast as Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth trying to keep a lid on his frustrations with the Party, the ruling power that...
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Twins who bewitched two literary giants: They were debutantes who took society by storm but instead of marrying chinless toffs, they ignited the ardour of George Orwell and Albert Camus
In 1935 the exquisitely pretty Paget sisters - identical twins who were also the Debutantes of the Year - took English society by storm.