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Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
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Category: Classics & Poetry
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 g ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
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Category: Classics & Poetry
Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is an account of living on the breadline in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant ...Show more
Essays: George Orwell by George Orwell
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Category: Classics & Poetry
'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs.' These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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Category: Classics & Poetry | 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 & Poetry
"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
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Category: Classics & Poetry
Part of our collection of Young Adult Classics, this is the classic dystopian tale of oppressive government. War is peace.Freedom is slavery.Ignorance is strength.The classic story of a society that controls your every move and thought and a man, Winston, who comes to realise the oppression he is livin ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Category: Classics & Poetry
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU . . . 1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three superstates. In Oceania, the Party's power is absolute. Every action, word, gesture and thought is monitored under the watchful eye of Big Brother and the Thought Police. In the Ministry of Truth, the ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Category: Classics & Poetry
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
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Intro Dennis Glover
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Category: Classics & Poetry
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 1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don?t let it happen,? he concluded. 'It depends on you.?In an age of inescapable sur ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four Clothbound Classic by George Orwell
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
'Who controls the past controls the future- who controls the present controls the past.'Hidden away in the Records Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, w ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty Four (Penguin English Library) by George Orwell
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Category: Classics & Poetry
'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, w ...Show more