I return to this book again
and again – and I do so as a Socialist. It is storytelling at its very best; the analogy of the farm animal's revolt is brilliance. If ever a
book predicted the reality of history
and humanity through their failings, it is Animal Farm.
You immediately bond
with the animals and their struggles, but the insidious nature of the pig's totalitarian
regime as later created, soon returns the reader to reality. One is left to
understand that Karl Marx hit the nail on the head; Socialism cannot exist
without being born of a democracy. A fact that the Soviets, through the crimes
of its Red Terror, missed.
Orwell has always been presented as anti-communist, but in reality, he was anything but, he was a realist, a pragmatist, and an anti-totalitarian
who fought in the Spanish Civil War.
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'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.'
Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is organised to benefit all who walk on four legs. But as time passes, the…
1984 is the better-known political work of Orwell. This was the author’s ninth and final book, and what a legacy it left for us.
Thematically, it presents its reader with the consequences of totalitarianism, repression, and mass surveillance of one’s citizens. The story is modeled on the brutal regime of the Soviet
Union, but equally Nazi Germany, who, with such ease, manipulated truth and fact within a perpetual war.
1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three superstates. In Oceania, the Party's power is absolute. Every action, word, gesture and thought is monitored under the watchful eye of Big Brother and the Thought Police. In the Ministry of Truth, the Party's department for propaganda, Winston Smith's job is to edit the past. Over time, the impulse to escape the machine and live independently takes hold of him and he embarks on a secret and forbidden love affair. As he writes the words 'DOWN WITH BIG…
This book was a delightful
find. I had long heard of a book that had been marketed as "predicting
the sinking" of the Titanic," and I was curious if that was true. Scrutiny led me to discover it did nothing of the sort. It was
republished with its new name, The Wreck of The Titan, after the Titanic sank. The
dimensions were also changed to fit that of the Titanic.
Nevertheless, it is a
wonderful read that I enjoyed.
How is this book unique?
Font adjustments & biography included
Unabridged (100% Original content)
Formatted for e-reader
Illustrated
About Futility, Or The Wreck Of The Titan by Morgan Robertson Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan is an 1898 novella written by Morgan Robertson. The story features the fictional ocean liner Titan, which sinks in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. The Titan and its sinking have been noted to be very similar to the real-life passenger ship RMS Titanic, which sank fourteen years later. Following the wreck, the novel was reissued with some changes, particularly in the ship's…
Soviet Propaganda & The Classroom is a unique, rare, and never-before-published collection of Bulgarian
socialist-era educational resources.
The photographs contained here were all
taken by the author as found over many, many years (this while sharing his
wife's passion for urban exploring).
While she had a penchant for decaying
buildings and architecture, mine was for bygone history and storytelling. What
you see here was all discovered in place within Bulgaria's abandoned school
buildings".
