George Orwell
Book List in Order: 11 titles
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1984: The Graphic Novel
- Jun-2021
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One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell''s 1984 .War is Peace * Freedom is Slavery * Ignorance is Strength In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitaria...
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Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel
- Sep-2019
- / General Fiction
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A beautiful graphic adaptation of George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel. In 1945, George Orwell, called “the conscience of his generation,” created an enduring, devastating story of new tyranny replacing old, and power corr...
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A Clergyman's Daughter
- 1950
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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 preac...
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Animal Farm
- 1946
- / Fantasy
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A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned...
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Down and Out in Paris and London
This is Orwell's record of a period in the late Twenties when he lived among the tramps, dregs and plongeurs of London and Paris. 'It is the white-hot reaction of a sensitive observant, compassionate young man to poverty, injustice and the callousnes...
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The Road to Wigan Pier
In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. He went beyond his assignment to investigate the employed as well-”to see the most typical section of the Engli...
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Burmese Days
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and imperial bigotry. Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for the Empire, whose downfall can only be prevented by m...
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Coming Up for Air
George Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one man's attempt to recapture childhood innocence as war looms on the horizon. George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged, married with chil...
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Damn Nation
"Bartlesville is where you go to die if you are in the Bastard Nation. I have three members under the stairs to prove it. The last heir of Christopher Columbus is in the garage - in the trunk of my car. They are alive." -George "In eight years I will...
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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 hi...
