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1984 by George Orwell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's classic dystopian tale. 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.' Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Poli ...Show more
Coming Up For Air by George Orwell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Orwell: the New Editions Ser.
A new edition of Orwell's elegiac fourth novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. Taylor First published in 1939 and dominated by the shadow of the Second World War, Coming up for Air finds fat, middle-aged and unhappily-married George Bowling trying to revisit the world of his Edwardian ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
$21.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
With new cover by urban artist Shepard Fairey. To be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was to experience life at its lowest ebb. George Orwell, penniless and with nowhere to go, found himself experiencing just this as he wandered the streets of both capitals in search of a job. By day, he tra ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Volume 1 of The Complete Works of George OrwellFew authors can have striven so hard to make themselves professional writers as did George Orwell. As a child he talked of becoming a writer; he wrote for student publications at Eton; whilst serving in the Imperial Police in Burma he sketched out ideas for ...Show more
Inside the Whale: On Writers and Writing by George Orwell
$28.00 NZD
Category: On Writing & Reading
Unfailingly elegant and endlessly relevant, the four essays in this collection treat literature as a vital record of our political hypocrisies, our social failings, and the ennobling limits of our ideological aspirations.
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
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 1984 by George Orwell
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
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
Orwell in Spain by George Orwell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
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's England by George Orwell; Peter Davison (Editor); Ben Pimlott (Introduction by)
$32.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Much of George Orwell's best writing, brought together in this comprehensive collection, is concerned with England, a country that he found both endearing and frustrating. In the brilliantly perceptive The English People, he lists the national characteristics as 'suspicion of foreigners, sentimentality ...Show more
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