Throughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, church institutions, and democratic governments alike have banned books that challenged their beliefs or questioned their activities. Political censorship was even applied to ancient Greek dramas during the Nazi occupation in 1942. Political suppression also occurs in the name of security and the safeguarding of official secrets, and is often used as a weapon in larger cultural or political battles. Such censorship has affected every form of writing. "Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds, Revised Edition" illustrates the extent and frequency of political censorship of many kinds of literature. The 10 entries new to this edition include works by Nobel Prize winners Wole Soyinka and Gao Xingjian, as well as works by Ha Jin and Edward Said. This edition also includes many updates to existing entries, such as "Gulliver's Travels". New and updated entries include: "After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?" (Jonathan C. Randal); "Animal Farm" (George Orwell); "Born on the Fourth of July" (Ron Kovic); "Burger's Daughter" (Nadine Gordimer); "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" (Dee Brown); "Cancer Ward" (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn); "The Case for India" (Will Durant); "Did Six Million Really Die?" (Richard E. Harwood); "Doctor Zhivago" (Boris Pasternak); "El Senor President" (Miguel Angel Asturias); "The Fugitive" (Pramoedya Ananta Toer); "The Grapes of Wrath" (John Steinbeck); "Gulliver's Travels" (Jonathan Swift); "The Jungle" (Upton Sinclair); "Les Miserables" (Victor Hugo); "The Man Died" (Wole Soyinka); "Manifesto of the Communist Party" (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels); "Mein Kampf" (Adolf Hitler); "The Patriot" (Hanoch Levin); "The Prince" (Machiavelli); "Slaughterhouse-Five" (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.); and "The Struggle Is My Life" (Nelson Mandela).

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Written with students and general readers in mind, this volume examines George Orwell's powerful fictional writing, as well as his provocative documentaries and essays. Students will gain an appreciation for the many levels of meaning in the allegorical Animal Farm and the startlingly prescient 1984. Brunsdale does a masterful job of showing how personal and world events came together in Orwell's writing. A carefully drawn biographical chapter examines the development of Orwell's worldview from his impressionable student days to his later years as he struggled with his health, his political identity, and his literary career. The literary heritage chapter traces Orwell's influence as a truth-teller and reviews the literary influences that inspired Orwell to experiment and continually refine his writing style. Individual chapters provide in-depth but accessible analysis of each major work of fiction and nonfiction including the often-anthologized essay "Shooting an Elephant" and Orwell's first full-length publication Down and Out in Paris and in London. In addition to plot and character development, considerable attention is given to the historical contexts and the thematic concerns of social injustice that drove Orwell to devote his life to his writing.

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George Orwell wrote many essays and political pamphlets, yet most know him for his fable "Animal Farm" and novel "1984". The essays in this enhanced "Bloom's Modern Critical Views" volume offer precise commentary on Orwell's political views, his perspective on totalitarianism, and the forms of realism in his works. It provides an enriching resource for students looking to gain a deeper comprehension of Orwell's relevant themes.

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George Orwell is one of the great writers of the 20th century, famous for his direct and powerful style as well as for his fictional condemnations of totalitarianism. The new "Critical Companion to George Orwell" is an up-to-date and useful reference to Orwell's life and work for high school and college-level students. All his works are covered, including two of the most-recognized novels of the 20th century:"Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four"; his famous essays, such as "Politics and the English Language" and "Shooting an Elephant"; his book-length nonfiction, such as "Homage to Catalonia and Down and Out in Paris and London"; and more. Also included are detailed entries on his life and related people, places, and topics. The entries include: synopses and critical assessments of all of Orwell's work; descriptions of characters in Orwell's fiction, such as Winston Smith, Napoleon the pig, and more; descriptions of people, places, and topics important in Orwell's life and work, such as communism, the Spanish Civil War, and more; and appendixes, including a chronology and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources.

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W Hołdzie Katalonii to po raz pierwszy publikowane w oficjalnym obiegu wspomnienia autora Roku 1984 dotyczące wojny domowej w Hiszpanii. Orwell, wnikliwy obserwator i precyzyjny komentator, odtwarza na kartach książki wydarzenia, w których dane mu było brać udział, kładąc szczególny nacisk na dokładny opis mechanizmów walki politycznej. Udaje mu się z powodzeniem rozszyfrować, skrywane za wojenno-rewolucyjną retoryką, polityczne intencje rywalizujących ze sobą ugrupowań. Obraz wojny rysuje Orwell z perspektywy zwykłego żołnierza, co pozwala mu ukazać jej codzienność — pełną brudu, zimna, głodu i nudy.

Wojna domowa w Hiszpanii stanowi w biografii Orwella istotną cezurę i daje początek intelektualnej i literackiej walce z wszelkiej maści totalitaryzmami.

Drastyczność opisów, szacunek dla szczegółów, opis mechanizmów manipulacji politycznej z jednej strony, z drugiej zaś autentyczne zaangażowanie autora, czynią z tej książki pasjonującą lekturę. Tym cenniejszą, iż wypełnia ona istotną lukę, jaką jest brak na polskim rynku czytelniczym rzetelnych opracowań dotyczących wojny domowej w Hiszpanii (1936 - 1939).

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