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.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 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
Taught by
Michael Shelden
