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Essays by George Orwell
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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.
Essays by George Orwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | 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.
Fighting in Spain by George Orwell
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Category: Travel | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
For an entire generation, the Spanish Civil War was the ultimate test of commitment and courage as Communism and Fascism faced each other across Europe. Nobody wrote more vividly or more painfully about this than Orwell (1903-1950), as he came face to face with the reality of the civil war in Catalonia. ...Show more
George Orwell: A Life in Letters by George Orwell
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Personal as well as political, Orwell's letters offer a fascinating window into the mind of a phenomenal man. We are privy to snatched glimpses of his family life: his son Richard's developing teeth, the death of his wife Eileen, and his own illness. Candid portraits of Barcelona during the Spanish Civi ...Show more
Great Ideas: Decline of the English Murder by George Orwell
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Category: Display & Gift | 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: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"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: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
When George Orwell joined up to fight in the Spanish Civil War, it seemed like the beginning of 'an era of equality and freedom'. In Homage to Catalonia he vividly chronicles his experiences: the revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona, the courage of the ordinary Spanish men and women he fought alongside, ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and a portrait of disillusionment with his early politics. It also offers a personal background to the subtexts of his later novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell's experiences include bei ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern 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
In Defence of English Cooking (Pocket Penguins Series) by George Orwell
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Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguins 70's S.
Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins Series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Books ...Show more
Inside the Whale: On Writers and Writing by George Orwell
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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
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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.