Resultados para "George" en Psicológica

Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth - or Minitrue as it is called in Newspeak - altering newspapers and reports to follow the arbitrary dictates of Big Brother’s propaganda.

The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984 when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a totalitarian superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employs the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist.

It's 1984. Winston Smith lives alone in London. He is a secret rebel plotting his escape from the Party: the deadly dictatorship led by Big Brother. Winston dreams of finding freedom, love and peace: everything that is outlawed. His act of defiance will get him killed - but his courage is...

Frank ha diciannove anni ed è figlio dell’attraente tenutaria di una casa di appuntamenti in una città del Nord durante l’occupazione nazista. Freddo, scostante, insolente, solitario, Frank vuole in segreto una cosa sola: iniziarsi alla vita. E crede che il modo migliore per farlo sia uccidere qualcuno senza ragione. Con sbalorditiva sicurezza, Simenon entra nella testa di questo personaggio al limite fra l’abiezione e una paradossale innocenza, e intorno a lui fa vivere il mondo della neve sporca – la sordida scena di una città dove tutto è tradimento, rancore, doppio gioco.

For 15 years the weaver Silas Marner has plied his loom near the village of Raveloe, alone and unjustly in exile, cut off from faith and human love, he cares only for his hoard of golden guineas. But two events occur that will change his life forever; his gold disappears and a golden-haired baby girl appears. But where did she come from and who really stole the gold? This moving tale sees Silas eventually redeemed and restored to life by the unlikely means of his love for the orphan child Eppie.

In the year 2043, the Ngumi War rages. Limited nuclear strikes have been used on Atlanta and two enemy cities, but the war goes on, fought by 'soldierboys' - indestructible war machines operated by remote control by soldiers hundreds of miles away. Julian Class is one of these soldiers, and for...

Sophie Émel è una donna carismatica e fuori dagli schemi: pilota spericolata, amante degli eccessi e di una vita disordinata, capace di slanci generosi quanto superficiali. È proprio uno di questi impulsi a spingerla ad accogliere in casa la nonna, un'anziana di ottant'anni dal carattere durissimo, costretta a lasciare la propria abitazione dopo un lungo e ostinato assedio alle autorità. Quello che inizia come un atto di carità si trasforma rapidamente in un perverso gioco di specchi.

George Eliot’s The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine in 1859 and has now become one of the author’s most widely read and critically discussed stories. Told from the point of view of a young, egocentric, and morbid clairvoyant man, Latimer, it is a dark...

Se «la vecchia» ha proprio con lui, Vladimir, un rapporto così speciale, è perché loro due si somigliano: provano entrambi un profondo disgusto per tutto quanto li circonda, e la medesima pietà per se stessi. Due mascalzoni infelici, intrisi di amarezza e di cinismo, questo sono.

Come ogni domenica, anche quel giorno il signor Hubert Cardinaud ha assistito alla messa con suo figlio, a seguire, la passeggiata vicino al mare, poi una sosta al tavolino di un caffè. Fa caldo, il signor Cardinaud non vede l'ora di togliersi la giacca e appenderla all'attaccapanni nel corridoio di casa. Sa già che ad accoglierlo ci sarà il profumo d'arrosto che sua moglie Marthe sta preparando. Appena entrato, però, chiama, ma non gli risponde nessuno; poi capisce cosa c'è che non va, non si sente profumo d'arrosto ma puzza di bruciato.

"Silas Marner" is a classic novel that delves into the intricacies of human nature, societal dynamics, and the power of redemption. The story begins with Silas Marner, a skilled weaver living in the fictional village of Raveloe. Silas is unjustly accused of theft by his best friend, and as a result, he is ostracized from the close-knit community he once belonged to. Broken-hearted and embittered, Silas relocates to a remote cottage on the outskirts of the village, where he lives a reclusive and miserly existence, finding solace only in his work and in hoarding gold coins.

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia.

DNA Never Lies is the first in a series of novels featuring Karen Copperfield, investigative genealogist. Karen helps people make sense of sometimes dark family secrets revealed by DNA tests as they ask: 'what happens when nothing you believed is true?'

Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian state in the novel on Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany.

 Alan is wrenched from this life by suicide. Dusty, haunted by the loss of the man he thought he knew, must deal with his own regrets before accepting one final task for his friend. Every step takes Dusty further from the friend he remembers and closer to the man he is becoming.  

Evelyn, a geneticist and amateur archeologist, makes a formidable discovery in Israel, the consequence of which is the birth of Christopher and José, identical twins raised apart, one in affluent Sydney, the other in the slums of Buenos Aires. The twins, unaware of each other’s existence or their origin, will meet for a moment only, in the Amazon, adversaries in the battle for the forest. Standing by both twins is Lorena, a medical student who under the claws of a dictatorship organizes the student environmental resistance.

Ethan and Claire are young Americans studying abroad in the hilltop town of Asolo, Italy — a place where time moves more slowly, and beauty lingers in the air like rosemary and old stone. They arrive together, in love and full of plans, but it doesn’t take long for the cracks to form. Then they meet Luca and Sofia — an Italian couple with their own history — and everything begins to shift.

In A Clergyman's Daughter, Orwell leads us through a landscape of unemployment, poverty and hunger, where Dorothy's faith is challenged by a social reality that changes her life.

Only four years after publishing his fable Animal Farm, a biting satire of Joseph Stalin’s horrific regime of terror, George Orwell turned his attention to the future. But his next book was to be no satire, no fable. What emerged from Orwell’s pen in 1949 was the most grimly dystopian novel ever written: 1984.

Bright, willful Maggie Tulliver longs for acceptance from Tom, her obstinately responsible brother whom she cherishes above all. As their father falls ill and loses Dorlcote Mill in a lawsuit, Maggie and Tom are forced down two divergent paths in life, each dictated by familial and societal expectations. Wasting away in the Tullivers' home, Maggie is soon inspired to follow her heart and lead a life of passion and impulse, which results in her brother renouncing her. As the siblings drift apart, only tragedy along the River Floss can bring them together again.