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Animal Farm by GEORGE ORWELL
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion i ...Show more
Animal Farm (Penguin Clothbound Classic) by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others'When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterm ...Show more
Burmese Days by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule. It describes corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally ... an inferior people'. When Flor ...Show more
Burmese Days by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, "Burmese Days" describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a 'subject' people, an inferior people with black faces'. Against the prevailing orth ...Show more
Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling. This and fear of another war take his mind back to the peace of his childhood in a small country town. But his return journey to Lower Binfield brings complete disillusionment.
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
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Category: Critical Thinking
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 by George Orwell
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Category: Critical Thinking
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: Critical Thinking
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
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. The Parisian episode is fascinating for its expose o ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London - New Edition by George Orwell, Hugo Rifkind (Introduction by)
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Category: Critical Thinking
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 - Notes on a Nation by George Orwell
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Category: Critical Thinking
This new collection brings together four of Orwell's short sketches of English life with his masterful analysis of a crumbling English society.
Essays by George Orwell
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 who elevated political writing to an art.