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1984 by George Orwell
$12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A well-priced edition of one of the greatest twentieth century novels, with a striking new jacket and an introduction by Charlotte Wood.Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in what remains of a Britain ravaged by revolution. His every move is monitored by the Thought Police, who are responsible ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
$12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
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 su ...Show more
A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
$32.95 AUD
Category: Everyman's Library | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Since its publication fifty years ago, "Animal Farm" has become one of the most controversial books ever written. It has been translated into seventy languages and sold millions of copies throughout the world. This edition is being published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its original U.S. p ...Show more
Animal Farm by George Orwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
With a new introduction by Professor John Sutherland, this edition takes a fresh look at one of the great works of the twentieth century.Animal Farm is a moral animal fable written to highlight the weakness of humankind, and satirize the rule of Stalin, whose rise through revolution ended in totalitaria ...Show more
Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell
$15.00 AUD
Category: Penguin Great Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic, from freedom of the press to what patriotism really ...Show more
Burmese Days; Keep the Aspidistra Flying; Coming Up For Air by George Orwell
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought
"Orwell draws on his experience in the Indian Imperial Police for his first novel, BURMESE DAYS, a devastating indictment of British colonial rule (he resigned to escape not merely from imperialism but from every form of man s dominion over man, as he later wrote). John Flory, cowardly and self-pitying, ...Show more
Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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.
England Your England by George Orwell
$4.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
England Your England' is one of the most compelling and insightful portraits of the nation ever written. Shot through with Orwell's deeply felt sense of patriotism and love for his homeland, the essay is at the same time unfailingly clear-eyed about the nation's failings- entrenched social inequality, a ...Show more
Fascism and Democracy by George Orwell
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Category: History
'The feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world . . . this prospect frightens me much more than bombs' Fascism and Democracycollects five brilliant examples of Orwell's writing during the darkest days of World War Two. Grappling with the principles of democracy and the p ...Show more
George Orwell: A Life in Letters by George Orwell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Personal as well as political, Orwell's letters offer a fascinating window into the mind of a phenomenal man. We are privy to snatched glimpses of his family life: his son Richard's developing teeth, the death of his wife Eileen, and his own illness. Candid portraits of Barcelona during the Spanish Civi ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought
"A crucially important book." - The Guardian "One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War." - The New Yorker Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's brutally honest account of his experience as a militiaman during the Spanish Civil War. In the last d ...Show more