Hey!! This month's recommended books are:
«1984 by George Orwell»
Nineteen Eighty-Four or simply called 1984, is a dystopian novel by the English novelist George Orwell. Thematically it centres on the consequences of government over-reach, totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Especially the role of truth and facts in politics and how they manipulate people.
The story is set in an imagined future, when the world has fallen victim of a perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and of course propaganda, with the posters representing the big eye of the Big Brother. The ruling Party, the Big Brother, employed the Thought Police to persecute people who have independent thinking.
The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a worker and Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He then will start a secrete and forbidden relationship with a co-worker, Julia.
The novel is considered as a classic of literature.
Nineteen Eighty-Four or simply called 1984, is a dystopian novel by the English novelist George Orwell. Thematically it centres on the consequences of government over-reach, totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Especially the role of truth and facts in politics and how they manipulate people.
The story is set in an imagined future, when the world has fallen victim of a perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and of course propaganda, with the posters representing the big eye of the Big Brother. The ruling Party, the Big Brother, employed the Thought Police to persecute people who have independent thinking.
The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a worker and Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He then will start a secrete and forbidden relationship with a co-worker, Julia.
The novel is considered as a classic of literature.
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Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published anonymously. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (19 years old) and Marianne (16 years old) as they come of age. They have an older half-brother, John, and a younger sister, Margaret (13 years old).
The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters as they must move with their widowed mother from the estate on which they grew up, Norland Park. Because it passed to John, the product of Mr. Dashwood's first marriage, and his son, the four Dashwood women need to look for a new place to stay. They have the chance to rent a modest home, called Barton Cottage, on the property of a distant relative, Sir John Middleton. Here they will experience love, romance, and also heartbreak.
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«Canne al Vento by Grazia Deledda»
Canne al Vento (Reeds in the Wind) is a novel by the Italian author and Nobel prize winner Grazia Deledda. The title of the book is an allusion to human frailty and sorrow, found in the novel Elias Portolu: "We are human, Elias, as frail as reeds: think carefully. There's a force we can't defeat above us."
The novel tells the story of a noble family, Pintor, that lives in a small village of Sardinia. The head of the family, Don Zame, is a proud and arrogant man. His wife and four daughters are devoted to housework and never allowed to go out. The only rebel one is Lia who flees to the Italian peninsula reaching a town in Lazio. There, she will get married and have a son, but unfortunately she will die too. Don Zame will go mad for the scandal and is then found dad on a bridge at the entrance of the village. These events are the background to the story, revealed from the point in which Giacinto, Lia's son, will come to their house.
The narration starts years after when the house is almost crumbling, barely managing to survive. Their servant, Efix (from Ephysius, the patron saint of Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia) is attached to them by guilt (that will be explained in the course of the book). He dreams to make the house flourish again and his hope is increased by the arrival of Giacinto, who will bring different emotions among the people of the village.