George Orwell
GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950) was born in India and served with the Imperial Police in Burma before joining the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was the author of six novels as well as numerous essays and nonfiction works.
George Orwell's Books
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (3)
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
“Nineteen Eighty-Four” revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century’s greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the oppos…
Animal Farm (2)
Orwell’s brilliant 1946 satire, chronicling a revolution staged by the animals on Mr. Jones’s farm.
Animal Farm and 1984 (0)
ANIMAL FARM
George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. It is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm into Animal Farm—a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created …
Coming Up for Air (0)
George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. …
Burmese Days (0)
Orwell draws on his years of experience in India to tell this story of the waning days of British imperialism. A handful of Englishmen living in a settlement in Burma congregate in the European Club, drink whiskey, and argue over an impending order to admit a token Asian.
Down and Out in Paris and London (0)
This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical, narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. In the tales of both cities we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and society.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (0)
Gordon Comstock is a poor young man who works in a grubby London bookstore and spends his evenings shivering in a rented room, trying to write. He is determined to stay free of the “money world” of lucrative jobs, family responsibilities, and the kind of security symbolized by the homely aspidistra plant that sits in ev…
Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London (0)
“Homage to Catalonia "is both a memoir of Orwell’s experience at the front in the Spanish Civil War and a tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. "Down and Out in Paris and London "chronicles the adventures of a penniless British writer who finds himself rapidly descending into the seedy …
A Clergyman's Daughter (0)
Dorothy, the heroine of this novel, performs good works, cultivates good thoughts, and pricks her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. She then has a series of unexpected and degrading adventures after becoming a victim of amnesia. Though she regains her life as a clergyman’s daughter, she has lost her faith.
Burmese Days, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming Up for Air (0)
For the first time in one hardcover volume—three classic novels by the author of "Nineteen Eighty- Four "and “Animal Farm.
”The lushly descriptive and tragic "Burmese Days, " a devastating indictment of British colonial rule, is based on Orwell’s own experience while serving in the Indian Imperial Police. His belov…
