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On the banks of the River Seine in 1899, a young woman takes her final breath before plunging into the icy water. Although she does not know it, her decision will set in motion an astonishing chain of events. It will lead to 1950s Norway, where a grieving toy-maker is on the cusp of a transformative invention, all the way to present-day Canada where a journalist, battling a terrible disease, risks everything for one last chance to live.

This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of all George Orwell's six novels: 1984; Animal Farm; Burmese Days; Coming Up For Air; Keep the Aspidistra Flying; and A Clergyman's Daughter.

Ellie Calvin is caught in a dying marriage, and she knows this. With her beloved daughter away at college and a growing gap between her and her husband - between her reality and the woman she wants to be - she doesn’t quite seem to fit into her own life. But everything changes after her controlling mother, Lillian, passes away. Ellie’s world turns upside down when she sees her ex-boyfriend, Hutch, at her mother’s funeral and learns that he is in charge of a documentary that involved Lillian before her death. He wants answers to questions that Ellie’s not sure she can face....

رواية "الخروج إلى الهواء الطلق" لمؤلفها "جورج أورويل"، رواية يتأرجح عبرها جورج أورويل ما بين الطفولة والكِبر، وما بين كذبة بريئة وأخرى فتاكة، حيث يخوض أورويل صراعاً محاولاً الكشف عن لغز الطفولة، عائداً إلى عوالمها كملاذ من عالم بربري لا يعرف إلا لغة واحدة هي القتل والدمار، فهناك فردوس اسمه الطفولة، مداره اللعب والمغامرات. ولكن هذه الطفولة تفتح أعينها في النهاية على عالم لا قيمة فيه إلا للربح على حساب الآخرين، وللأنانية والجشع، وتدمير البيئة، فهذا هو العالم الذي تفرضه السياسة والسياسيون على الجنس البشري.