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George Orwell Complete Works
- gramie 3y agoThis website looks like possibly the worst way to read George Orwell (or anyone else). Links to individual chapters, text in a narrow (and non-adjustable) column, a search function that doesn't work... Just buy the book, or borrow it from a library.
- nwithan8 3y agoThe Copyright 2003 footer should tell you everything you need to know about why the website looks the way it does.
- selcuka 3y agoWe had functional search on web sites in 2003 (arguably even better than today), so someone must have broken it after it had been implemented.
- woleium 3y agosolr* of that era was a pain to keep running. I'd guess that's what they used? * https://solr.apache.org/ https://solr.apache.org/
- selcuka 3y agoNo idea, but it looks like a routing issue, it doesn't even hit the search engine. They've probably disabled all dynamic (PHP) code. Fortunately Google search still works well: https://www.google.com/search?q=napoleon+site%3Ageorge-orwell.org https://www.google.com/search?q=napoleon+site%3Ageorge-orwel...
- jayanmn 3y ago..and so many advertisements. Low quality effort.
- dools 3y agoThis seems to leave out my favourite essay by Orwell which is a review of 2 books: The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek / The Mirror of the Past by K. Zilliacus Observer, 9 April 1944 The only full reproduction of it I can find online (apart from an abridged google book) is here: https://maudestavern.com/2008/10/09/george-orwell-review/ https://maudestavern.com/2008/10/09/george-orwell-review/
- Fellshard 3y ago> But he does not see, or will not admit, that a return to ‘free’ competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny probably worse, because more irresponsible, than that of the State. The trouble with competitions is that somebody wins them. This seems incomplete, using the wrong definition of 'competition' to try and make a clever point. Competition does not necessarily grant permanent 'winners' or 'losers', unless the 'game' is forcibly ended for good. Infinitely repeated games are very different in nature from singleton games, and the number and nature of the players involved are also not fixed.
- retrac 3y agoAll of Orwell's works are in the public domain in Canada and Australia, and can be obtained in multiple formats, from Project Gutenberg Canada or Australia: http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-n-z.html#orwell http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-n-z.html#orwell http://gutenberg.ca/index.html http://gutenberg.ca/index.html (search for Orwell) It would not be legal for American residents to access the above. His works remain under copyright in the USA; now 95 years from publication so Nineteen-Eighty-Four will enter the public domain there in 2044. Though really, things are getting, if you will excuse the expression, rather Orwellian with copyright, and it seems likely to me it will never become public domain.
- getoj 3y agoNote that none of these sources are by any means the complete works of Orwell. Much of his writing was done in newspaper columns that were never collected during his lifetime or, due to resistance from his widow, for many years after his death. The true complete works was published in 20 volumes in 1998, of which the latter 10 volumes were content previously not published in book format (afaik). Unfortunately, though understandably, this set was a small run and mainly ended up in the hands of collectors and academic libraries. Anyone who has access to it would do the world a great service by scanning and uploading it to libgen or similar.
- barrysteve 3y agoWhat would be the service in that? Let people keep their works exclusive if they so wish. We don't publish the formula for Coca Cola, but somehow an author (or his estate) has less entitlement to his own work, than an a flavour technician at Coca Cola. Stop cheating the rules. It makes me not want to write, not want to work. The strongest desire I have for an authoritarian leadership is to keep sticky hands and brazen heads off works, that took a lifetime to make. People say we don't need the wrath of god, but we also don't need the double standard of "secrets for me, openness for thee".
- Thorrez 3y agoHe published them in newspapers. They weren't secrets. Trade secret laws and copyright laws are different things.
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- fooker 3y agoLearn to separate the art and the artist.
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- gizajob 3y agoDepends if those socialists are attempting to set up some kind of revolution that results in Ingsoc
- selcuka 3y agoYeah, nah: > The list includes dozens of suspected communists, “crypto-communists,” socialists, “fellow travelers,” and even LGBT people and Jews The point is both Animal Farm and 1984 are about Stalin's Russia, not about a Western country, and the attempted proletarian revolution in 1984 is against communism.
- gizajob 3y agoOn your reading maybe. If Orwell wanted to set 1984 in Stalin’s Russia then he would have done
- selcuka 3y agoIt never occurred to me that it could be read another way, but apparently people have different interpretations [1]. Asimov's review [2] seems to support my interpretation, too: > It was most popular at first with people who leaned towards the conservative side of the political spectrum, for it was clearly an anti-Soviet polemic, and the picture of life it projected in the London of 1984 was very much as conservatives imagined life in the Moscow of 1949 to be. [1] https://fee.org/articles/orwell-s-1984-how-to-misread-a-classic/ https://fee.org/articles/orwell-s-1984-how-to-misread-a-clas... [2] http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm http://www.newworker.org/ncptrory/1984.htm
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- dang 3y agoI'm all in favor of Orwell on HN (probably too much so) but this is not the way to do it! If you post the generic information "Orwell", which is all that "The Complete Works" really points to, then the discussion will only be a boo-vs.-yay thread about Orwell-in-general. This is not so interesting, and that sort of thread usually degrades pretty quickly. What you should do instead is post the most uncorrelated/curious article by Orwell (or maybe about him) that you can find—preferably something that highlights some little-discussed or surprising aspect. Then the hivemind has something fibrous to chew on. This is an application of the principles "lists don't make great HN submissions" [1] and "generic subjects are less interesting" [2]. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=denominator%20lists%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=generic%20discussion%20by%3Adang%20-flamewars%20-flamewar&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- rando14775 3y agoMy own and some other actually way more informative criticism of Orwell got deleted by the mods.
- russellbeattie 3y agoIf you haven't read anything else by Orwell except Animal Farm and 1984, I'd suggest starting with Homage to Catalonia. It's a pretty amazing story (non-fiction), and also quite apropos to our current political reality with people calling for civil war. I think that's just crazy right-wing rhetoric, but still. Orwell writes about how the military becomes split into factions and civilians become divided, with cities either becoming strongholds or splitting into fighting neighborhoods with escalating violence. Definitely a must read.