George Orwell

An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in God, a fierce opponent of nationalism who defined Englishness for a generation. Aside from being one of the greatest political essayists in the English language and author of two of the most famous books in twentieth century literature, George Orwell was a man of many fascinating contradictions, someone who liked to go against the grain because he believed that was where the truth usually lay. George Orwell. English Rebel takes us on a journey through the many twists and turns of Orwell's life and thought, from the precocious public school satirist at Eton and the imperial policeman in Burma, through his early years as a rather dour documentary writer, down and out on the streets of Paris and London and on the road to Wigan pier, o his formative experiences as a volunteer soldier in the Spanish Civil War. Above all, the book skilfully traces Orwell's gradual reconciliation with his country, a journey which began down a coal mine in 1936 to find its exhilarating peaks during the dark days of the Second World War.

This Collection of Poems from George Orwell has 13 Poems and it includes below poems. - A Dressed Man - A Little Poem - Awake! Young Men of England - Ironic Poem about Prostitution - Kitchener - On A Ruined Farm Near The 'His Master's Voice Gramophone Factory' - Our Minds Are Married, But We are Too Young - Poem from Burma - Romance - Sometimes In The Middle Autumn Days - Summer-Like - The Lesser Evil - The Pagan

An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in God, a fierce opponent of nationalism who defined Englishness for a generation. Aside from being one of the greatest political essayists in the English language and author of two of the most famous books in twentieth century literature, George Orwell was a man of many fascinating contradictions, someone who liked to go against the grain because he believed that was where the truth usually lay. George Orwell. English Rebel takes us on a journey through the many twists and turns of Orwell's life and thought, from the precocious public school satirist at Eton and the imperial policeman in Burma, through his early years as a rather dour documentary writer, down and out on the streets of Paris and London and on the road to Wigan pier, o his formative experiences as a volunteer soldier in the Spanish Civil War. Above all, the book skilfully traces Orwell's gradual reconciliation with his country, a journey which began down a coal mine in 1936 to find its exhilarating peaks during the dark days of the Second World War.

This Collection of Poems from George Orwell has 13 Poems and it includes below poems. · A Dressed Man · A Little Poem · Awake! Young Men of England · Ironic Poem about Prostitution · Kitchener · On A Ruined Farm Near The 'His Master's Voice Gramophone Factory' · Our Minds Are Married, But We are Too Young · Poem from Burma · Romance · Sometimes In The Middle Autumn Days · Summer-Like · The Lesser Evil · The Pagan

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 -a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell's masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.

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 -a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell's masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.

The authoritative biography of George Orwell, written with the cooperation of Orwell's widow. ‘In its thoroughness, and its mastery of a considerable volume of material, this is the definitive biography of Orwell.’ Sunday Times ‘It is hardly worth using up space to declare just how good it is. Different readers will come away from its seventeen pungent and packed chapters with diverse memories of its excellence.’ Guardian

The authoritative biography of George Orwell, written with the cooperation of Orwell's widow. ‘In its thoroughness, and its mastery of a considerable volume of material, this is the definitive biography of Orwell.’ Sunday Times ‘It is hardly worth using up space to declare just how good it is. Different readers will come away from its seventeen pungent and packed chapters with diverse memories of its excellence.’ Guardian

George Orwell's early novels illuminate his two great books,Animal FarmandNineteen Eighty-Four, and George Orwell himself. George Orwell was born in India and educated at Eton, after which he joined the Imperial Police in Burma where he served for six years, developing a disgust for imperialism which led him to resign.Burmese Days,based on these years, "is a crisp, fierce, and almost boisterous attack on the Anglo-Indian" (New Statesman). It is also the story of a sensitive lonely Englishman with an affection for the Burmese, and a longing for a particular young Englishwoman, who finds himself trapped by a dishonest system and oppressive society. InA Clergyman's Daughter,a weak-willed unhappy spinster, daughter of a disagreeable clergyman in a small East Anglian village, achieves a brief and accidental liberation from her mundane life. However, Orwell's biographer D. J. Taylor, writes "The great fascination ofA Clergyman's Daughteris that it is essentially the same plot ofNineteen Eighty-Four, which doesn't appear until fourteen years later. It's about somebody who is spied upon, and eavesdropped upon, and oppressed by vast exterior forces they can do nothing about. The last scene ofA Clergyman's Daughterhas Dorothy back in her father's rectory in Suffolk, still doing the mundane, routine tasks that she was doing at the start of the novel, having rebelled against the life she's enmeshed in still. Just like Winston Smith inNineteen Eighty-Four, she's had to come to a kind of accommodation with it. It's a very prophetic novel in terms of what came later in Orwell's writing." TheAspidistrais a plant that tenaciously survives forever on many British windowsills, without ever thriving. It is a metaphor for the life of the British lower-middle class.Keep the Apsidistra Flyingis a pointed observation of the British class system which is based on the worship of the Money God: And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is money.(George Orwell,Keep the Apsidistra Flying). Don't you see that a man's whole personality is bound up with his income? His personality is his income.(George Orwell,Keep the Apsidistra Flying). Coming up for Airis remarkably prescient. It foresees the scourges of poverty and totalitarianism as well as the destruction of the environment, decades before Rachel Carson'sSilent Spring: "What makesComing Up for Airso peculiarly bitter to the taste is that, in addition to calling up the twin spectres of totalitarianism and workless poverty, it also declares the impossibility of 'retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies' - because it postulates a world in which these things are simply not there any more." (John Wain, In the Thirties: The World of George Orwell.) This reasonably-priced volume will be a pleasure to anyone with an interest in Orwell.

George Orwell's early novels illuminate his two great books, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, and George Orwell himself. George Orwell was born in India and educated at Eton, after which he joined the Imperial Police in Burma where he served for six years, developing a disgust for imperialism which led him to resign. Burmese Days, based on these years, "is a crisp, fierce, and almost boisterous attack on the Anglo-Indian" (New Statesman). It is also the story of a sensitive lonely Englishman with an affection for the Burmese, and a longing for a particular young Englishwoman, who finds himself trapped by a dishonest system and oppressive society. In A Clergyman's Daughter, a weak-willed unhappy spinster, daughter of a disagreeable clergyman in a small East Anglian village, achieves a brief and accidental liberation from her mundane life. However, Orwell's biographer D. J. Taylor, writes "The great fascination of A Clergyman's Daughter is that it is essentially the same plot of Nineteen Eighty-Four, which doesn't appear until fourteen years later. It's about somebody who is spied upon, and eavesdropped upon, and oppressed by vast exterior forces they can do nothing about. The last scene of A Clergyman's Daughter has Dorothy back in her father's rectory in Suffolk, still doing the mundane, routine tasks that she was doing at the start of the novel, having rebelled against the life she's enmeshed in still. Just like Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four, she's had to come to a kind of accommodation with it. It's a very prophetic novel in terms of what came later in Orwell's writing." The Aspidistra is a plant that tenaciously survives forever on many British windowsills, without ever thriving. It is a metaphor for the life of the British lower-middle class. Keep the Apsidistra Flying is a pointed observation of the British class system which is based on the worship of the Money God: And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is money. (George Orwell, Keep the Apsidistra Flying). Don't you see that a man's whole personality is bound up with his income? His personality is his income. (George Orwell, Keep the Apsidistra Flying). Coming up for Air is remarkably prescient. It foresees the scourges of poverty and totalitarianism as well as the destruction of the environment, decades before Rachel Carson's Silent Spring: "What makes Coming Up for Air so peculiarly bitter to the taste is that, in addition to calling up the twin spectres of totalitarianism and workless poverty, it also declares the impossibility of 'retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies' - because it postulates a world in which these things are simply not there any more." (John Wain, In the Thirties: The World of George Orwell.) This reasonably-priced volume will be a pleasure to anyone with an interest in Orwell.