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Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and a portrait of disillusionment with his early politics. It also offers a personal background to the subtexts of his later novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell's experiences include bei ...Show more
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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-faith ...Show more
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying: Popular Penguins by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A novel by the author of 1984 about a man determined to reject middle-class values who finds living in noble poverty more difficult than expected. Gordon Comstock despises the materialism and shallowness of middle-class life--the worship of money, the striving for dull, stuffy respectability. To live ...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 1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction | 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: The Annotated Edition by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
This is the essential edition of the essential book of modern times, "1984", now annotated for students with an introduction by D. J. Taylor. Ever since its publication in 1949, George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian regime where Big Brother controls its citizens like 'a boot stamping on a ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Graphic Novel by George Orwell
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Category: Graphic Novel
The first ever graphic novel adaptation of George Orwell's timeless dystopiaWinston Smith, an outwardly obedient citizen of Airstrip One, dreams secretly of truth and freedom - but his rebellion will come at a terrible cost. George Orwell's dark masterpiece has enthralled readers for over seventy years. ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Graphic Novel by George Orwell
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Category: Graphic Novel
The first ever graphic novel adaptation of George Orwell's timeless dystopia. Winston Smith, an outwardly obedient citizen of Airstrip One, dreams secretly of truth and freedom - but his rebellion will come at a terrible cost. George Orwell's dark masterpiece has enthralled readers for over seventy year ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Vintage Classics HB) by George Orwell
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Category: 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 [w Glover corrected last para] by George Orwell
$22.99 AUD
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