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1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's classic dystopian tale. 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.' Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Poli ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A well-priced edition of one of the greatest twentieth century novels, with a striking new jacket and an introduction by Charlotte Wood.Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in what remains of a Britain ravaged by revolution. His every move is monitored by the Thought Police, who are responsible ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
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 su ...Show more
1984 & Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
George Orwell's novels about the dangers of tyranny, the corruption of the state and the enslavement of the individual are essential reading. In an era of doublespeak, they remain chillingly prophetic.Introductions by Charlotte Wood, 1984and Don Watson, Animal Farm.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
The year is 1984. War and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brother. Mass surveillance is everything and The Thought Police ensure no individual thinking is allowed.Winston Smith works at The Ministry of Truth, care ...Show more
A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s ...Show more
A Clergyman's Daughter by D. J. Taylor (Editor); George. Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Orwell: the New Editions Ser.
A new edition of Orwell's starkly realistic second novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D. J. TaylorFirst published in 1935, when Orwell was struggling to establish himself as a writer, A Clergyman's Daughter tells the story of twenty-something Dorothy Hare, whose mundane life in a Suffolk ...Show more
A Life in Letters by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction
George Orwell was a tireless and lively correspondent. He communicated with family members, friends and newspapers, figures such as Henry Miller, Cyril Connolly, Stephen Spender and Arthur Koestler, and strangers who wrote to him out of the blue. This carefully selected volume of his correspondence prov ...Show more
All Art Is Propaganda - Critical Essays by GEORGE ORWELL
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Category: Culture & Ideas
As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low. A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turn ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
'All animals are equal - but some 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 élite among them, masterminded ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Category: Kid's Classics
One of Time magazine's 100 best English-language novels and the most famous of all twentieth-century political allegories. This account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, is a universal drama. Taking as his ...Show more