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Homage to Catalonia
Penguin Books Ltd 2003; Not AvailableIn 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. 'An unrivalled picture of the rumours, suspicions and treachery... more...
Animal Farm
Hachette India 2012; Not AvailableEnter Manor Farm, owned by Mr Jones, a lazy farmer who ignores the plight of the animals who toil under his yoke. However, things change dramatically after Major, the prizewinning boar, has a dream, in which all the animals are free. His rousing speeches incite the animals to revolt against oppression. Egged on by the promise of freedom, the animals... more...
Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition
Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not AvailableThis is the essential edition of the essential book of modern times, 1984 , now annotated for students with an introduction by D. J. Taylor. Ever since its publication in 1948, George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian regime where Big Brother controls its citizens like 'a boot stamping on a human face' has become a touchstone for... more...
The Orwell Diaries
Penguin Books Ltd 2010; Not AvailableGeorge Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. The Orwell Diaries presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook. An entry from 1931 tells of a communal shave in the Trafalgar Square fountains, while notes from his travels through industrial England show... more...
Burmese Days
Penguin Books Ltd 2009; Not AvailableSet in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a "subject" people, an inferior people with black faces'. Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends... more...
The Complete Novels of George Orwell
Penguin Books Ltd 2001; Not AvailableContains the complete novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm , Burmese Days , A Clergyman's Daughter , Coming up for Air , Keep the Aspidistra Flying and Nineteen Eighty-Four . Includes explanatory notes on the etymology of the language 'Newspeak'. more...
Down and Out in Paris and London
Penguin Books Ltd 2001; Not Available'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society. Here he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested... more...
Orwell and the Dispossessed
Penguin Books Ltd 2001; Not AvailableThis volume brings together Orwell's powerful writings of his personal exepriences of poverty and life outside mainstream society. The complete texts of DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON is included. more...
A Clergyman's Daughter
Penguin Books Ltd 2000; Not AvailableIntimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s Depression England. Suddenly her routine shatters... more...
Coming Up for Air
Penguin Books Ltd 2001; Not AvailableYears in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling. This and fear of another war take his mind back to the peace of his childhood in a small country town. But his return journey to Lower Binfield brings complete disillusionment. more...









