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Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Orwell's first published book, Down and Out in Paris and London, is at once a very personal account, an exposé of poverty-stricken lives between the wars, and a call for social and economic reform.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gol ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
Volume 1 of The Complete Works of George OrwellFew authors can have striven so hard to make themselves professional writers as did George Orwell. As a child he talked of becoming a writer; he wrote for student publications at Eton; whilst serving in the Imperial Police in Burma he sketched out ideas for ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London - New Edition by George Orwell, Hugo Rifkind (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society.Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly docu ...Show more
England Your England by George Orwell
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Category: Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
England Your England' is one of the most compelling and insightful portraits of the nation ever written. Shot through with Orwell's deeply felt sense of patriotism and love for his homeland, the essay is at the same time unfailingly clear-eyed about the nation's failings- entrenched social inequality, a ...Show more
England Your England - Notes on a Nation by George Orwell
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Category: Writing
This new collection brings together four of Orwell's short sketches of English life with his masterful analysis of a crumbling English society.
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and a portrait of disillusionment with his early politics. It also offers a personal background to the subtexts of his later novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell's experiences include bei ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
"A crucially important book." - The Guardian "One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War." - The New Yorker Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's brutally honest account of his experience as a militiaman during the Spanish Civil War. In the last d ...Show more
Inside the Whale: On Writers and Writing by George Orwell
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Category: Writing
Unfailingly elegant and endlessly relevant, the four essays in this collection treat literature as a vital record of our political hypocrisies, our social failings, and the ennobling limits of our ideological aspirations.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying: Popular Penguins by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A novel by the author of 1984 about a man determined to reject middle-class values who finds living in noble poverty more difficult than expected. Gordon Comstock despises the materialism and shallowness of middle-class life--the worship of money, the striving for dull, stuffy respectability. To live ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
WAR IS PEACEFREEDOM IS SLAVERYIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH Winston Smith is a good worker. He supports the Party. He is good at his job rewriting history to Government specification. Big Brother watches him, but there is nothing to see.Winston's struggle against the totalitarian world he inhabits is a closely ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Intro Dennis Glover
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Category: Classics
In an age of inescapable surveillance, fake news, alternative facts, would-be Big Brothers and endless low-level wars, Orwell's warning still speaks to us today, and with greater force than ever before. Republished with a new introduction by Dennis Glover, author of The Last Man in Europe, Orwell's prop ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
Volume 9 of The Complete Works of George Orwell'It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.' This is the opening sentence of the most influential novel of the century, in English or in any of the sixty or more languages which boast a translation. Nineteen Eighty-Four has bee ...Show more