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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 by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
Few 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 Burmese Days; on returning to Europe, he spent ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
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
George Orwell's 1984: The Graphic Novel (PB) by GEORGE ORWELL
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Category: Classics
Winston Smith is a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in the nation of Oceania. Everywhere Winston goes, even his own home, the Party watches him through telescreens; everywhere he looks he sees the face of the Party's seemingly omniscient leader, Big Brother. The Party controls everything in Oceani ...Show more
Great Ideas: Decline of the English Murder by George Orwell
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning), as well as unfolding his trenchant views on everything from boys' weeklies to naught ...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
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
'This is the story of one man who went to Spain with an intellectual sympathy for socialist doctrine and came back. . . with a fervent, almost religious belief in its necessity' - so the dust-jacket to the first edition of Homage to Catalonia in 1938. Despite a mixture of laudatory and politically-biase ...Show more
Keep the Aspidistra Flying: Popular Penguins by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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 1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Contemporary | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very 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 sur ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Graphic Novel by George Orwell
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Category: Classics Graphic Novel
The first ever graphic novel adaptation of George Orwell's timeless dystopiaWinston Smith, an outwardly obedient citizen of Airstrip One, dreams secretly of truth and freedom - but his rebellion will come at a terrible cost. George Orwell's dark masterpiece has enthralled readers for over seventy years. ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Graphic Novel by George Orwell
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Category: Graphic novel
The first ever graphic novel adaptation of George Orwell's timeless dystopia. Winston Smith, an outwardly obedient citizen of Airstrip One, dreams secretly of truth and freedom - but his rebellion will come at a terrible cost. George Orwell's dark masterpiece has enthralled readers for over seventy year ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-four (Popular Penguin - Redacted Cover Edition) by George Orwell
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century, making famous Big Brother, newspeak and Room 101. 'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'. Hidden away in the Record Depa ...Show more