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1	Animal Farm more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist Orwell's 1945 fable about the power struggles among animals on a farm parallels the situation in Russia at the time as Orwell saw it; the characters include the ruthless pig Stalin, his idealistic Trotsky-like adversary, and the simple, kindly horse who represents the common man. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	1984 more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist George Orwell's celebrated and always timely 1948 vision of a world subsumed in tyranny and war describes the process of events by which Winston Smith, a London clerk at the Ministry of Truth, comes to understand the true nature and aims of the government he works for, and portrays his doomed attempt to create a private life for himself and his ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
3	Nineteen Eighty Four more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist George Orwell's celebrated and always timely 1948 vision of a world subsumed in tyranny and war describes the process of events by which Winston Smith, a London clerk at the Ministry of Truth, comes to understand the true nature and aims of the government he works for, and portrays his doomed attempt to create a private life for himself and his ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.82! \| first editions
4	A Collection of Essays more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist This collection contains some of Orwell's best: "Such, Such Were the Joys" (his incomparable recollection of his brutal public school days), "Shooting an Elephant," "Why I Write," "Politics and the English Language," and "England Your England," as well as essays on Dickens, Kipling, and Henry Miller. It also includes his witty dissection of the ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.43! \| first editions
5	Animal Farm: A Fairy Story more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.81! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Homage to Catalonia more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist '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 brings to bear all the force of his ... see all copies from £3.08! new only from £5.80! \| first editions
7	Down & Out in Paris & London more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist '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 ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.06! \| first editions
8	Burmese days more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist Orwell wrote this novel after his experiences in Burma, where, instead of going to university, he served for five years working for the British government as a member of the Indian Imperial Police--a post he resigned because he felt he could no longer support the repressive colonial system. In BURMESE DAYS, Orwell's insights into Burmese culture ... see all copies from £3.04! new only from £5.48! \| first editions
9	The Orwell reader; fiction, essays, and reportage. more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist Here is Orwell's work in all its remarkable range and variety. The selections in this anthology show how Orwell developed as writer and as thinker; inevitably, too, they reflect and illuminate the history of the time of troubles in which he lived and worked. "A magnificent tribute to the probity, consistency and insight of Orwell's topical ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.63! \| first editions
10	The Road to Wigan Pier more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, "The Road to Wigan Pier" is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.18! \| first editions
11 view cover	Why I Write more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist see all copies from £2.18! new only from £2.18!
12 view cover	Coming up for air more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist Set just before World War II begins, Orwell's novel tells the story of a very ordinary suburban Englishman, George "Fatty" Bowling, who wins money at the races and changes his life by delving into his past. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.36! \| first editions
13 view cover	Animal Farm and 1984 more books like this by George Orwell, A M Heath, Christopher Hitchens (Introduction by) add to wishlist This combined edition of two George Orwell classics into one hardback volume contains a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens, who wrote a successful biography of Orwell last fall. see all copies from £9.85! new only from £11.76!
14 view cover	Clergyman's daughter. more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist Intimidated 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 ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.84! \| first editions
15 view cover	Keep the Aspidistra Flying more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.62! \| first editions
16 view cover	All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays more books like this by George Orwell, Keith Gessen (Introduction by), George Packer (Compiled by) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from £9.05! new only from £10.22! \| first editions
17 view cover	1984: With Connections more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! new only from £9.26!
18 view cover	Essays more books like this by George Orwell, John Carey (Introduction by) add to wishlist (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) A generous and varied selection-the only hardcover edition available-of the literary and political writings of one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century. Although best known as the author of "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-four," George Orwell left an even more lastingly significant achievement in ... see all copies from £12.54! new only from £16.25!
19	1984 : nineteen eighty-four : das Faksimile des Original-Manuskripts more books like this by George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Michael Walter add to wishlist see all copies from £5.90! new only from £8.66!
20 view cover	Dickens, Dali and Others more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist Ten celebrated essays by a man universally regarded as a master of the essay form. Included are such classics as "Charles Dickens," "The Art of Donald McGill," "Boys' Weeklies," "Raffles and Miss Blandish," and "Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali." see all copies from £5.54! new only from £12.98! \| first editions
21 view cover	A Patriot After All 1940-1941 more books like this by George Orwell, Peter Davison (Editor) add to wishlist For the twenty-month period of this volume, there are reproduced 123 book, 38 theatre, and 43 film reviews. Inside the Whale, Orwell's first collection of essays, and The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius are reprinted here. Later in that year he gave a series of broadcasts on literary criticism, the texts of which are ... see all copies from £16.09! new only from £16.09!
22	Shooting an elephant, and other essays. more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist see all copies from £6.37! new only from £6.37! \| first editions
23	1984 : a novel by George Orwell add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! new only from £8.66! \| first editions
24 view cover	George Orwell Boxed Set: 1984/Animal Farm more books like this by George Orwell, Simon Prebble (Read by), Ralph Cosham (Read by) add to wishlist Orwell's brilliant 1946 satire, chronicling a revolution staged by the animals on Mr. Jones's farm (Animal Farm). George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision of "Negative Utopia" is timelier than ever-and its warnings more powerful (1984). see all copies from £7.39! new only from £11.43!
25	Decline of the English murder : and other essays more books like this by George Orwell add to wishlist see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions

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