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England Your England - Notes on a Nation by George Orwell
$26.99 AUD
Category: Books on Literature
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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Books on Literature | 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.
Fascism and Democracy by George Orwell
$4.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'The feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world . . . this prospect frightens me much more than bombs' Fascism and Democracycollects five brilliant examples of Orwell's writing during the darkest days of World War Two. Grappling with the principles of democracy and the p ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell; Lisa Mullen (Editor)
$17.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism as I understand it." Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
"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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
"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 (Collins Classics) by George Orwell
$9.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I sometimes fear we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War. In Homage to Catalonia, first published just before ...Show more
Inside the Whale: On Writers and Writing by George Orwell
$26.99 AUD
Category: Books on Literature
Unfailingly elegant and endlessly relevant, the four essays in this collection treat literature as a vital record of our political hypocrisies, our social failings, and the ennobling limits of our ideological aspirations.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying: Popular Penguins by George Orwell
$12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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 by George Orwell
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Category: Science Fiction
WAR IS PEACEFREEDOM IS SLAVERYIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH Winston Smith is a good worker. He supports the Party. He is good at his job rewriting history to Government specification. Big Brother watches him, but there is nothing to see.Winston's struggle against the totalitarian world he inhabits is a closely ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | 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