Loraine Saunders – The Unsung Artistry of George Orwell
Publisher: Ashgate | 2008-05-23 | ISBN: 0754664406 | PDF | 170 pages | 1.08 MB

In a timely and radically new reappraisal of George Orwell’s fiction, Loraine Saunders reads Orwell’s novels as tales of successful emancipation rather than as chronicles of failure. Contending that Orwell’s novels have been undervalued as works of art, she offers extensive textual analysis to reveal an author who is in far more control of his prose than has been appreciated. Persuasively demonstrating that Orwell’s novels of the 1930s such as “A Clergyman’s Daughter” and “Keep the Aspidistra Flying” are no less important as literature than “Animal Farm” and “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, Saunders argues they have been victims of a critical tradition whose practitioners have misunderstood Orwell’s narrative style, failed to appreciate Orwell’s political stance, and were predisposed to find little merit in Orwell’s novels.Saunders devotes significant attention to George Gissing’s influence on Orwell, particularly with regard to his representations of women. She also examines Orwell’s socialism in the context of the political climate of the 1930s, finding that Orwell, in his successful negotiation of the fine balance between art and propaganda, had much more in common with Charlie Chaplin than with writers like Stephen Spender or W. H. Auden. As a result of Saunders’s detailed and accessible analysis, which illuminates how Orwell harmonized allegory with documentary, polyphonic voice with monophonic, and elegy with comedy, Orwell’s contributions to the genre of political fiction are finally recognized.
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The House of Mirth
By F. Edith Wharton
Wordsworth Classics | October 5, 1998 | ISBN: 9781840224191 / 1840224193
English | 320 pages | HQ PDF | 6.6 MB

The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits – her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long. Wharton charts the course of Lily’s life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity.
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A mere few hundred years after the founding of Nyk’s homeworld, Florans had returned to space to extend their presence to other, more hospitable worlds. One such world was the colony of Varada, founded on an Earth-like planet.

After losing too many vessels in the dangerous Varadan approach, the Florans decided to abandon the colony. However, a stalwart band of colonists refused to leave. Now, after thousands of years of isolation, the Varadans desire contact with their planet of origin.
Because of his talent with languages, Nykkyo is asked to accompany the delegation to Varada and to serve as interpreter. There, he learns a terrible secret about Varadan society; and he discovers the sinister motive a behind a certain Floran faction’s interest in the forsaken world.

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John O. Jordan – The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press | 2001-06-18 | ISBN: 0521669642 | PDF | 258 pages | 10.34 MB

The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens contains fourteen chapters by leading international scholars that cover the whole range of Dickens’ writing. Separate chapters address important thematic topics: childhood, the city, and domestic ideology. Others consider formal features of the novels, including their serial publication and Dickens’ distinctive use of language. The volume as a whole offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers, as well as fresh insights, informed by recent critical theory, that will be of interest to scholars and teachers of his novels.
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