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Animal Farm & 1984

Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300

As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals, and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality is one of the most scathing satires ever published. As we witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary animals, we begin to recognize the seeds of totalitarianism in the most idealistic organization; and in our most charismatic leaders, the souls of our cruelest oppressors.

Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

Sat, 21 Aug 1999 17:51:40 +0300

George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist. From his earliest published article in 1928 to his untimely death in 1950, he produced an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflectedas it was for Yeats to versify or Dickens to invent."Facing Unpleasant Facts charts Orwell's development as a master of the narrative-essay form and unites classics such as "Shooting an Elephant" with lesser-known journalism and passages from his wartime diary. Whether detailing the horrors of Orwell's boyhood in an English boarding school or bringing to life the sights, sounds, and smells of the Spanish Civil War, these narrative essays weave together the personal and the political in an unmistakable style that is at once plainspoken and brilliantly complex. Contents: The Spike Clink A Hanging Shooting an Elephant Bookshop Memories Marrakech My Country Right or Left War-time Diary England Your England Dear Doktor Goebbels - Your British Friends Are Feeding Fine! Looking Back on the Spanish War As I Please, 1 As I Please, 2 As I Please, 3 As I Please, 16 Revenge Is Sour The Case for the Open Fire The Sporting Spirit In Defence of English Cooking A Nice Cup of Tea The Moon Under Water In Front of Your Nose Some Thoughts on the Common Toad A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray Why I Write How the Poor Die Such, Such Were the Joys

The Complete Novels of George Orwell

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George Orwell's best-known novels, *Animal Farm*, describing a revolution that goes horribly wrong, and *Nineteen Eighty-Four*, portraying a world where human freedom has been crushed, are two of the most famous, well-quoted and influential political satires ever written. The other novels in this volume also tell stories of people at odds with repressive institutions: the corrupt imperialism of *Burmese Days*, disaffection with materialistic society in *Keep the Aspidistra Flying*, the perils of modern suburban living in *Coming Up for Air *and surviving on the streets in *A Clergyman's Daughter*. All the novels brought together here display Orwell's humour, his understanding of human nature and his great compassion.

Why I Write

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Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war, Orwell's timeless, uncompromising essays are more relevant, entertaining and essential than ever in today's era of spin.

Homage to Catalonia

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In this chronicle of his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes and cynical betrayals of that chaotic and brutal episode in European history.

Down and Out in Paris and London

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This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. The Parisian episode is fascinating for its expose of the kitchens of posh French restaurants, where the narrator works at the bottom of the culinary echelon as dishwasher, or plongeur. In London, while waiting for a job, he experiences the world of tramps, street people, and free lodging houses. In the tales of both cities we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and society.

Decline of the English Murder

Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300

In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and lament 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 and naughty seaside postcards to being arrested in East End.

Coming Up for Air

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George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF.

All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300

As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low. A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned increasingly to the critical essay in the 1940s, when his most important experiences were behind him and some of his most incisive writing lay ahead.All Art Is Propaganda follows Orwell as he demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary."how to be interesting, line after line." Contents: Charles Dickens Boys' Weeklies Inside the Whale Drama Reviews: *The Tempest, The Peaceful Inn* Film Review: *The Great Dictator* Wells, Hitler and the World State The Art of Donald McGill No, Not One Rudyard Kipling T.S. Eliot Can Socialists Be Happy? Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali Propaganda and Demotic Speech Raffles and Miss Blandish Good Bad Books The Prevention of Literature Politics and the English Language Confessions of a Book Reviewer Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of *Gulliver's Travels* Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool Writers and Leviathan Review of *The Heart of the Matter* by Graham Greene Reflections on Gandhi

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

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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. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life. Through the character of Gordon Comstock, Orwell reveals his own disaffection with the society he once himself renounced.

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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*Alternate Cover Edition can be found [here](https://www./book/show/20691208-1984). * Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.

Essays

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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.

Vuonna 1984

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:22:13 +0200

"Ajatusrikos oli asia jota ei voinut salata iäti. Sen voi pitää piilossa jonkin aikaa, jopa vuosikaudet, mutta ennemmin tai myöhemmin siitä takuulla jäi kiinni." Totuusministeriön virkamies Winston Smith elää totalitaristisessa valtiossa. Mystinen Isoveli valvoo kaikkialla: joka huoneistossa teleruutu lähettää puolueen propagandaa ja toisaalta tarkkailee kansalaisten liikkeitä, jopa heidän ajatuksiaan. Puolue on luonut myös uuskielen, jonka tarkoituksena on tehdä puolueen vastustaminen eli ajatusrikos mahdottomaksi. Romaanin päähenkilö Winston Smith väärentää työkseen historiaa mutta on samalla alkanut epäillä totalitaristista järjestelmää. Seuraukset ovat kohtalokkaat.

Shooting an Elephant

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This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes "Shooting an Elephant", "My Country Right or Left", "Decline of an English Murder" and "A Hanging". With great originality and wit Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to a spirited defence of English cooking. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose style, Orwell's essays challenge, move and entertain.