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George Orwell
Orwell's chillingly resonant allegorical fable, with an introduction and study notes
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they…
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Dorian Lynskey
In The Ministry of Truth, Dorian Lynskey charts the life of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: one of the most influential books of the 20th Century, a perennial bestseller, and a…
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George Orwell and Somerset Maugham: A comparative study - by Hassan Akram BBC…
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Orwell’s classic satire ANIMAL FARM continues to be an international best seller. For the first time ever, ORWELL AND POLITICS brings this major work together with the author’s other works…
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This volume brings together Orwell’s powerful writings of his personal experiences of poverty and life outside mainstream society. The complete texts of DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON is…
THE AUTHORATITIVE TEXT All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Napoleon and Snowball form an elite and take control for themselves, and the tyranny of…
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A beautiful graphic adaptation of Orwell’s timeless and timely allegorical novel.
Collected together for the first time, this volume includes the complete text of THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER - Orwell’s vivid and impassioned documentary of unemployment and proletarian life -…
Including Homage to Catalonia , Orwell’s profound experience of fighting in the Spanish Civil War, this title also contains Orwell’s essays, letters and pamphlets, which show his resolution to tell…
Tim Crook
By assessing the quality and representation of George Orwell on the radio - the radio dramas he wrote himself and the dramatizations and documentaries of his work by others -Tim…
To be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was to experience life at its lowest ebb. George Orwell, penniless and with nowhere to go, found himself experiencing just…
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A definitive edition of Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, with an introduction and study notes
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the…
A new and definitive edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four, introduced and annotated by Orwell’s prize-winning biographer. With additional content from Orwell himself.
Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success. Gordon Comstock decides to live in poverty rather than compromise with…
Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell’s first novel is set during the end days of British colonialism, when Burma is ruled from Delhi as part…
Reprint. Originally published: London: V. Gollancz, 1935.
Animal Farm is George Orwell’s famous satire of Stalin’s Russia told through the guise of a farm animal rebellion, featuring an introduction by journalist and writer Jason Cowley.
Ever since its publication in 1949, George Orwell’s terrifying vision of a totalitarian regime where Big Brother controls its citizens like ‘a boot stamping on a human face’ has become…
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a ‘good job’ in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write…
In this, his early memoir, Orwell recalls with vivid clarity his time working as a penniless dishwasher in Paris, pawning clothes to buy a day’s worth of bread and wine…
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. The year is 1984, and life in Oceania is ruled by the Party. Under the gaze…
This essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. In it, Orwell argues that when political discourse trades clarity and precision for stock phrases, the debasement of politics…
George Orwell’s famous account of his own experience living in poverty in Paris then London. With an introduction by Lara Feigel.
George Joshua Orwel
Sculpted Ambiances in Africana Landscape centers on ambiance as it affects the expanded sculptural field, particularly filling a gap in aesthetics left by a lack of focus on sculptures and…
Rabindranath Tagore was the author of poems, short stories, songs, plays, and essays, and his works transformed Bengali literature. Like Tagore, George Orwell was born in India. Orwell became an…
This collection of essays addresses a number of facets of George Orwell, examining both Orwell the man of letters and Orwell the political man.
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Anita Croy
George Orwell’s 1984 had a major impact on the world when it was first released, and its themes of government surveillance, the threat of totalitarianism, and the suppression of information…
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A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the…
Douglas Kerr
A fresh account of the development and achievement of the novelist and essayist who became Britain’s greatest political writer of modern times.
Major English novelist. Key themes: totalitarianism and English working classes. Writings include: The Road to Wigan Pier, Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty Four. Volume covers the period 1933-1969.
Tanya Agathocleous
Tanya Agathocleous’s concise biography is enhanced by sidebars and picture captions which include numerous excerpts from Orwell’s journalistic and literary writings. A final chapter explores Orwell’s cultural legacy–his lasting contributions…
Henry Thomas Hopkinson
Gordon Bowker
A biography of George Orwell (1903- 1950), the author of 1984 and ANIMAL FARM.
Peter Brian Barry
George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell's work reveals an author whose work was deeply informed by…
Deals with the working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, the Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has…
Two of the greatest and most influential works of the twentieth century, together in one edition.
George Orwell’s novels about the dangers of tyranny, the corruption of the state and…
This Collection of Poems from George Orwell has 13 Poems and it includes below poems. - A Dressed Man - A Little Poem - Awake! Young Men of England -…
Averil Gardner
Series Editors: Kinley E. Roby, Northeastern University; Herbert Sussman, Northeastern University; Joseph Bartolomeo, University of Massachusetts; George Economou, University of Oklahoma; Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts. TWAYNES UNITED STATES…
An indelible part of 21st century social reality, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has gifted our culture this cautionary warning and pitch-black absurdist autobiography, Orwell's words now rings more relevant than…
Nineteen Eighty-Four, Often Published as 1984, is a Dystopian novel by English writer George Orwell published in June 1949, whose themes centre on the risks of government overreach, totalitarianism and…
The articles collected in George Orwell’s Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell’s longer, major…
Professor Michael G. Brennan (University of Leeds, UK)
Drawing on the full range of Orwell’s public and private writing, Michael Brennan reassesses Orwell’s lifelong engagement with religion in his life and work –