BOOKS by George Orwell

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1	Animal Farm more books like this by George Orwell "Literature Guidelines" is a series of magazine-style books on popular texts for GCSE. They are designed to encourage pupils to become actively involved in researching the texts and in exploring their own responses. Material used includes contemporary social and political documents, letters, reviews, photographs and cartoons intended to stimulate ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £3.19! \| first editions
2	1984 more books like this by George Orwell This volume is part of a new series of novels, plays and stories at GCSE/Key Stage 4 level, designed to meet the needs of the National Curriculum syllabus. Each text includes an introduction, pre-reading activities, notes and coursework activities. Also provided is a section on the process of writing, often compiled by the author.;Big Brother is ... see all copies from £4.13! new only from £4.13! \| first editions
3	Nineteen Eighty Four more books like this by George Orwell This volume is part of a new series of novels, plays and stories at GCSE/Key Stage 4 level, designed to meet the needs of the National Curriculum syllabus. Each text includes an introduction, pre-reading activities, notes and coursework activities. Also provided is a section on the process of writing, often compiled by the author.;Big Brother is ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £5.59! \| first editions
4	Homage to Catalonia more books like this by George Orwell '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 £5.10! new only from £5.10! \| first editions
5	Animal farm; a fairy story more books like this by George Orwell 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 £1.38! new only from £3.47! \| first editions
6	Down & Out in Paris & London more books like this by George Orwell '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 £1.38! new only from £3.55! \| first editions
7	Keep the Aspidistra Flying more books like this by George Orwell 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 £1.95! new only from £7.19! \| first editions
8	Burmese days more books like this by George Orwell Set 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, ... see all copies from £1.81! new only from £6.46! \| first editions
9	Animal Farm and 1984 more books like this by George Orwell, A M Heath, Christopher Hitchens (Introduction by) 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 £13.86! new only from £13.86!
10	The Road to Wigan Pier more books like this by George Orwell 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 £2.08! new only from £7.19! \| first editions
11 view cover	Coming up for air more books like this by George Orwell Years 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. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £7.19! \| first editions
12 view cover	A Collection of Essays more books like this by George Orwell 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 £5.55! new only from £10.22!
13 view cover	All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays more books like this by George Orwell, Keith Gessen (Introduction by), George Packer (Compiled by) 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 £11.09! new only from £11.09!
14 view cover	Why I Write more books like this by George Orwell see all copies from £1.49! new only from £1.49!
15 view cover	Clergyman's Daughter more books like this by George Orwell 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 £1.38! new only from £8.80! \| first editions
16 view cover	Essays more books like this by George Orwell, John Carey (Introduction by) (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 £18.26! new only from £20.79!
17 view cover	Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays more books like this by George Orwell, George Packer (Editor) 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 reflected--and illuminated--the fraught times in which he lived and wrote. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George Packer in his foreword to this ... see all copies from £12.82! new only from £12.82! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Orwell reader; fiction, essays, and reportage. more books like this by George Orwell 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 £5.54! new only from £11.40! \| first editions
19 view cover	Inside the whale and other essays more books like this by George Orwell In "Politics and the English Language", Orwell puts the case for political writers to use plain English and illustrates his point in essays such as "England your England" and "Inside the Whale", while essays on language and literature consider "Gulliver's Travels", Tolstoy and "King Lear". see all copies from £1.38! first editions
20 view cover	As I Please: 1943-1946 more books like this by George Orwell, Sonia Orwell (Editor), Ian Angus (Editor) see all copies from £9.71! new only from £11.96!
21 view cover	Dickens, Dali and Others more books like this by George Orwell 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 £6.21! new only from £11.89! \| first editions
22 view cover	The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An Age Like This, 1920-1940 more books like this by George Orwell, Sonia Orwell (Editor), Ian Angus (Editor) see all copies from £11.62! new only from £11.62! \| first editions
23	1984: With Connections more books like this by George Orwell 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 £5.54! new only from £11.06!
24 view cover	1984: Big Brother Is Watching You more books like this by George Orwell, Simon Prebble (Read by) 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 £19.03! new only from £19.03!
25	1984 : nineteen eighty-four : das Faksimile des Original-Manuskripts more books like this by George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Michael Walter see all copies from £3.25! new only from £10.40!

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