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George Orwell was renowned for his use and analysis of the English language. Anyone interested in language will find these six famous pithy essays instructive and engaging. The essays are: Politics and the English Language. Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels The Prevention of Literature Why I Write Writers and Leviathan. Poetry and the Microphone This edition provides generous margins for the reader's notes. George Orwell (born Eric Blair, 1903, Motihari, Bengal, died Jan 1950, London) was a leading British writer of the twentieth century. He studied at Wellington College and Eton (1917-1921) where he was a King's Scholar. After Eton, he followed family tradition and joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, until 1927 when, disgusted by imperialism, he resigned to pursue his boyhood dream of being a writer. Orwell was a prolific journalist, essayist, novelist and nonfiction writer. He is remembered for his prescient writing and his unwavering commitment to truth and clarity of expression. His last two novels--Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four--have placed him at the pinnacle of British literature. He has been called "not the best, but the most important writer who ever lived."

George Orwell was renowned for his use and analysis of the English language. Anyone interested in language will find these six famous pithy essays instructive and engaging. The essays are: Politics and the English Language.Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's TravelsThe Prevention of LiteratureWhy I WriteWriters and Leviathan.Poetry and the Microphone This edition provides generous margins for the reader's notes. George Orwell (born Eric Blair, 1903, Motihari, Bengal, died Jan 1950, London) was a leading British writer of the twentieth century. He studied at Wellington College and Eton (1917-1921) where he was a King's Scholar. After Eton, he followed family tradition and joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, until 1927 when, disgusted by imperialism, he resigned to pursue his boyhood dream of being a writer. Orwell was a prolific journalist, essayist, novelist and nonfiction writer. He is remembered for his prescient writing and his unwavering commitment to truth and clarity of expression. His last two novels--Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four--have placed him at the pinnacle of British literature. He has been called "not the best, but the most important writer who ever lived." (The Economist, 2023)

A new and definitive edition of Coming up for Air, introduced and annotated by Orwell's prize-winning biographer. With additional content from Orwell himself.

A new and definitive edition of Keep the Aspidistra Flying, introduced and annotated by Orwell's prize-winning biographer. With additional content from Orwell himself.

A new and definitive edition of Burmese Days introduced and annotated by Orwell's prize-winning biographer.

A new and definitive edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four, introduced and annotated by Orwell's prize-winning biographer. With additional content from Orwell himself.

A new and definitive edition of Animal Farm, introduced and annotated by Orwell's prize-winning biographer. With additional content from Orwell himself.

A new and definitive edition of Burmese Days introduced and annotated by Orwell's prize-winning biographer.

2021 Facsimile of six novels written by Orwell. Originally published between 1934 and 1949, the works included in this Omnibus edition are:ANIMAL FARM; BURMESE DAYS; A CLERGYMAN'S DAUGHTER; COMING UP FOR AIR; KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR.ANIMAL FARMA searing satire upon dictatorship in which the pigs, leaders of the animals' revolution against the humans, make their famous declaration "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."BURMESE DAYSBased on Orwell's experiences in the mid-l 920s as a police officer in Burma, this is an unsparingly realistic novel about East meeting West.A CLERGYMAN'S DAUGHTERShe spends an evening with the local atheist and seducer, loses her memory and joins a band of tramps, before returning to the routine of good works.COMING UP FOR AIRA brilliant and amusing indictment of the failings and follies of the British way of life.KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYINGGordon Comstock, poet and Angry Young Man of the 30s, walks out of a good job and ultimately into penury.NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUROrwell's vision of totalitarian terror under Big Brother has become an enduring classic and an iconic work of fiction.

With a new introduction by Professor Richard Bradford, this is a timely, essential edition. Orwell's prescient text is a warning of a world walking into a dystopian future. 'Big Brother', 'newspeak' and 'thoughtcrimes' are central to the author's demonstration of autocratic control, and offer a startling relevance for today.

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The international bestselling classic from the author of Animal Farm.

A dystopian masterpiece, 1984 is the powerful and prophetic novel that defined the twentieth century. This edition has a new, specially commissioned introduction by Alex Massie which recognises the importance that Barnhill, Orwell's home on the Island of Jura, had on the writing of this classic.

A searing account of George Orwell''s observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s.

Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time with this vivid memoir.

A firsthand account of the brutal conditions of the Spanish Civil War.

The perfect addition to the library of any classic literature fan.