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George Orwell: A Sage for All Seasons

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George Orwell’s official biographer walks you through the author’s life and times, and reveals the powerful lessons of Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and other enduring masterpieces.

Syllabus

  • 01: The Real George Orwell
  • 02: George Orwell, Child of the British Empire
  • 03: Orwell’s Edwardian Idyll
  • 04: Orwell’s Unsentimental Education
  • 05: Orwell, Eton, and Privilege
  • 06: Orwell the Policeman
  • 07: Orwell and the Imperial Burden
  • 08: Orwell’s Lost Generation
  • 09: Orwell, Poet of Poverty
  • 10: Orwell and the Battle of Fact and Fiction
  • 11: Orwell and England in the 1930s
  • 12: Orwell and the Left
  • 13: Orwell and the Spanish Crucible
  • 14: Totalitarianism and Lessons of Barcelona
  • 15: Orwell and the Last Days of Peace
  • 16: Orwell at the Outbreak of World War
  • 17: Orwell and the Art of Propaganda
  • 18: Orwell and the Cultural Underground
  • 19: Orwell and the Fight for Animal Farm
  • 20: Orwell’s Wife and the Life of Writing
  • 21: Politics and the English Language
  • 22: Orwell’s Island Escape
  • 23: 1984: Big Brother and the Thought Police
  • 24: Orwell’s Long Farewell
  • By This Professor

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Michael Shelden

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