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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
A new edition of Orwell's timeless dystopian classic, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. Taylor Since its first publication in 1949, Orwell's devastating expose of the totalitarian mind has established itself as the most influential political satire of the modern age. Winston Smith's doome ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
Volume 9 of The Complete Works of George Orwell'It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.' This is the opening sentence of the most influential novel of the century, in English or in any of the sixty or more languages which boast a translation. Nineteen Eighty-Four has bee ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU . . . 1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three superstates. In Oceania, the Party's power is absolute. Every action, word, gesture and thought is monitored under the watchful eye of Big Brother and the Thought Police. In the Ministry of Truth, the ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four by GEORGE ORWELL
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother - 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were newly created by George Orwell in 1949 as he conjured his dystopi ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don?t let it happen,? he concluded. 'It depends on you.?In an age of inescapable sur ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four Clothbound Classic by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
'Who controls the past controls the future- who controls the present controls the past.'Hidden away in the Records 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, w ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty Four (Penguin English Library) by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' 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, w ...Show more
Nineteen-Eighty Four - The Jura Edition by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
THE JURA EDITION with new introduction by Alex Massie'For him Jura was home' - Richard Blair on his father George Orwell'The book of the twentieth century . . . haunts us with an ever-darker relevance' - Ben Pimlott, Independent'The greatest British novel to have been written since the war' - Time Out'H ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four [w Glover corrected last para] by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
It is 1984. The world is in a state of perpetual war and Big Brother sees and controls all. Winston Smith, a member of the Outer Party and propaganda-writer at the Ministry of Truth, is keeping a journal he should not be keeping and falling in love with Julia, a woman he should not be seeing. Outwardly ...Show more
Orwell and the Dispossessed by George Orwell; Peter Davison (Editor)
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Category: Critical Thinking
The vivid, impassioned writings collected together in this powerful volume chronicle Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the 'two nations' of rich and poor. Down and Out in Paris and London is the young Orwell's memoir of his time as a struggling, often penniless writer, livi ...Show more
Orwell in Spain by George Orwell
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Category: History
The volume collects together Orwell's writings on his experience of the Spanish Civil War - the chaos at the Front, the futile young deaths for what became a confused cause, the antique weapons and the disappointment many British Socialists felt on arriving in Spain to help. Orwell in Spain also include ...Show more
Orwell on Truth by George Orwell
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Category: Critical Thinking
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows. This selection of George Orwell's writing, from both his novels and non-fiction, gathers together his thoughts on the subject of truth. It ranges from discussion of personal honesty and morality, to freed ...Show more