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Orwell's England by George Orwell
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Collected together for the first time, this volume includes the complete text of "The Road to Wigan Pier" - Orwell's vivid and impassioned documentary of unemployment and proletarian life - as well as Orwell's best writing on the political and social condition of England.
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's reals and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are p ...Show more
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
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Category: New Hardbacks
George Orwell's essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. It is about the importance of writing concisely, clearly and precisely and the dangers to our ability to think when language, especially political language, is obscured by vague, cliched phrases and hackneyed metaphors. In it ...Show more
Seeing Things as They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings by George Orwell
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The best of Orwell's journalism, published in one volume for the first time, selected by leading expert Peter Davison. Celebrated for his novels and essays, Orwell remains one of our very best journalists and commentators. Confronting social, political and moral dilemmas head-on, he was fearless in his ...Show more
Seeing Things as They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings by George Orwell
$69.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Famous for his novels and essays, Orwell remains one of our very best journalists and commentators. Confronting social, political and moral dilemmas head-on, he was fearless in his writing: a champion of free speech, a defender against social injustice and a sharp-eyed chronicler of the age. But his wor ...Show more
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithToday, George Orwell is perhaps most famous for his iconic novels - Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm - but ...Show more
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as 'My Country Right or Lef ...Show more
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad by George Orwell
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
In this collection of eight witty and sharply written essays, Orwell looks at, among others, the joys of spring (even in London), the picture of humanity painted by Gulliver and his travels, and the strange benefit of the doubt that the public permit Salvador Dali. Also included here are a mouth-waterin ...Show more
The Complete Novels of George Orwell by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
His best-known novels, "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four", are two of the most famous, well-quoted and influential political satires ever written. The other novels in this volume are also concerned with individuals at odds with repressive institutions: the corrupt imperialism of "Burmese Days", di ...Show more
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius by George Orwell
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and the silly'This is the most powerful portrait of England - and why it must change - ever written. Composed as bombs were falling over London at the height of the blitz, it remains ...Show more
The Orwell Diaries by George Orwell
$29.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. This title presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook.