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Títol : 1984 Tipus de document : text imprès Autors : George Orwell ; Fromm, Erich, Editorial : New York : Signet Classics Data de publicació : 1977 Nombre de pàgines : 328 p. Dimensions : 19 cm ISBN/ISSN/DL : 978-0-451-52493-5 Nota general : Bibliografia: p. 327-328 Classificació : NE Narrativa en anglès Resum : Winston Smith is a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in London, in the nation of Oceania. Everywhere Winston goes, even his own home, the Party watches him through telescreens; everywhere he looks he sees the face of the Party’s seemingly omniscient leader, a figure known only as Big Brother. The Party controls everything in Oceania, even the people’s history and language. Currently, the Party is forcing the implementation of an invented language called Newspeak, which attempts to prevent political rebellion by eliminating all words related to it. Even thinking rebellious thoughts is illegal. Such thoughtcrime is, in fact, the worst of all crimes. 1984 [text imprès] / George Orwell ; Fromm, Erich, . - New York : Signet Classics, 1977 . - 328 p. ; 19 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-451-52493-5
Bibliografia: p. 327-328
Classificació : NE Narrativa en anglès Resum : Winston Smith is a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in London, in the nation of Oceania. Everywhere Winston goes, even his own home, the Party watches him through telescreens; everywhere he looks he sees the face of the Party’s seemingly omniscient leader, a figure known only as Big Brother. The Party controls everything in Oceania, even the people’s history and language. Currently, the Party is forcing the implementation of an invented language called Newspeak, which attempts to prevent political rebellion by eliminating all words related to it. Even thinking rebellious thoughts is illegal. Such thoughtcrime is, in fact, the worst of all crimes. Exemplars (1)
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Títol : About a boy Tipus de document : text imprès Autors : Hornby, Nick Editorial : London [etc.] : Penguin Books Data de publicació : 2000 Nombre de pàgines : 296 p. Dimensions : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/DL : 978-3-12-573830-0 Nota general : Inclou vocabulari, notes i anotacions Idioma : Anglès (eng) Classificació : NE Narrativa en anglès Resum : Will Freeman is a thirty-six year old man who lives off the royalties of a song that his father wrote nearly seventy years ago. Will is commitment-phobic, so when he meets a single mother and discovers that this type of woman is just as reluctant to commit as he, he makes up a two-year old son so he can join a single parents group. Through this group Will meets twelve year old Marcus, a child who is completely opposite of Will. Marcus pushes himself on Will, hoping at first that Will might marry his mother, but later realizing that Will has all the knowledge Marcus needs to help him survive middle school. Together, Will and Marcus will struggle through everyday life and somehow help one another mature. About a boy [text imprès] / Hornby, Nick . - London [etc.] : Penguin Books, 2000 . - 296 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN : 978-3-12-573830-0
Inclou vocabulari, notes i anotacions
Idioma : Anglès (eng)
Classificació : NE Narrativa en anglès Resum : Will Freeman is a thirty-six year old man who lives off the royalties of a song that his father wrote nearly seventy years ago. Will is commitment-phobic, so when he meets a single mother and discovers that this type of woman is just as reluctant to commit as he, he makes up a two-year old son so he can join a single parents group. Through this group Will meets twelve year old Marcus, a child who is completely opposite of Will. Marcus pushes himself on Will, hoping at first that Will might marry his mother, but later realizing that Will has all the knowledge Marcus needs to help him survive middle school. Together, Will and Marcus will struggle through everyday life and somehow help one another mature. Exemplars (1)
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Títol : Almayer's folly Tipus de document : text imprès Autors : Joseph Conrad Menció d'edició : Reissued Editorial : London [etc.] : Penguin Books Data de publicació : 1976 Col·lecció : Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Nombre de pàgines : 167 p. Dimensions : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/DL : 978-0-14-018030-5 Idioma : Anglès (eng) Classificació : NE Narrativa en anglès Resum : 'Conrad was the most consummate, the most engrossed, the most practical, the most common-sensible and the most absolutely passionate man-of-action become consious man-of-letters that this writer has ever known, read or conceived of' - Ford Madox Ford.
Set in Malaya, Almayer's Folly is the story of a man's inability to escape his self-delusion and of the tragedy that ensues.
Conrad's impressive first novel charts the decline of a Dutch merchant after twenty-five years of hard struggle against overwhelming odds. Married to a hating and hateful Malayan wife, Almayer refuses to fact the financial ruin which he has courted, preferring instead ot build dreams of fantastic wealth and envisaging a triumphant return to the civilization of his youth, accompanied by his loving and exquisite daughter, Nina.
But he has reckoned without Nina's own free will, and when she turns away from his elusive fantasies tothe tangible reality of her native lover, Almayer's final destruction proves cruelly inevitable.Almayer's folly [text imprès] / Joseph Conrad . - Reissued . - London [etc.] : Penguin Books, 1976 . - 167 p. ; 20 cm. - (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) .
ISBN : 978-0-14-018030-5
Idioma : Anglès (eng)
Classificació : NE Narrativa en anglès Resum : 'Conrad was the most consummate, the most engrossed, the most practical, the most common-sensible and the most absolutely passionate man-of-action become consious man-of-letters that this writer has ever known, read or conceived of' - Ford Madox Ford.
Set in Malaya, Almayer's Folly is the story of a man's inability to escape his self-delusion and of the tragedy that ensues.
Conrad's impressive first novel charts the decline of a Dutch merchant after twenty-five years of hard struggle against overwhelming odds. Married to a hating and hateful Malayan wife, Almayer refuses to fact the financial ruin which he has courted, preferring instead ot build dreams of fantastic wealth and envisaging a triumphant return to the civilization of his youth, accompanied by his loving and exquisite daughter, Nina.
But he has reckoned without Nina's own free will, and when she turns away from his elusive fantasies tothe tangible reality of her native lover, Almayer's final destruction proves cruelly inevitable.Exemplars (1)
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Títol : American pastoral Tipus de document : text imprès Autors : Philip Roth Menció d'edició : 1st Vintage International ed. Editorial : London : Vintage Data de publicació : 1998 Nombre de pàgines : 423 p. Dimensions : 21 cm ISBN/ISSN/DL : 978-0-375-70142-9 Nota general : Publicat originariament en Estats Units d'America per Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, en 1997 Classificació : NE Narrativa en anglès Resum : American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, which in the novel is described as a manifestation of the "indigenous American berserk. American pastoral [text imprès] / Philip Roth . - 1st Vintage International ed. . - London : Vintage, 1998 . - 423 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-375-70142-9
Publicat originariament en Estats Units d'America per Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, en 1997
Classificació : NE Narrativa en anglès Resum : American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson, which in the novel is described as a manifestation of the "indigenous American berserk. Exemplars (1)
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Títol : American Short Stories of Today Tipus de document : text imprès Autors : Esmor Jones, Editor Editorial : London [etc.] : Penguin Books Data de publicació : 1988 Nombre de pàgines : 136 p. Dimensions : 20 cm ISBN/ISSN/DL : 978-0-14-007997-5 Idioma : Anglès (eng) Classificació : NE Narrativa en anglès Resum : A wonderfully funny tall story from Kurt Vonnegut, Sam Shepard's sharply observed account of a young boy who runs away from home and Star Light a virtuoso science fiction from Asimov, are some of the pleasures in store in this collection. It contains pieces by new young talents as well as from the already well known, and these taken together provide us with a marvellous window on contemporary America, a view into its rich and exciting variety of peoples, cities and farmlands, cultures and imaginations. American Short Stories of Today [text imprès] / Esmor Jones, Editor . - London [etc.] : Penguin Books, 1988 . - 136 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN : 978-0-14-007997-5
Idioma : Anglès (eng)
Classificació : NE Narrativa en anglès Resum : A wonderfully funny tall story from Kurt Vonnegut, Sam Shepard's sharply observed account of a young boy who runs away from home and Star Light a virtuoso science fiction from Asimov, are some of the pleasures in store in this collection. It contains pieces by new young talents as well as from the already well known, and these taken together provide us with a marvellous window on contemporary America, a view into its rich and exciting variety of peoples, cities and farmlands, cultures and imaginations. Exemplars (1)
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