George Orwell
1) Animal farm
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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. publication. It features 100 full-color and halftone illustrations by world-renowned artist Ralph Steadman. As vital and relevant as it was fifty years...
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"Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) was the first book published by Eric Arthur Blair under the pseudonym George Orwell. The book offers an account of Blair's experiences of poverty -- of being 'down and out' -- as he tried to build a career as a writer. The book begins by describing the experience of destitution in Paris, and particularly work as a plongeur -- pot-washer -- in restaurant kitchens. The second section consists of comparable experiences...
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[1956]
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248 pages 21 cm.
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Gordon Comstock refuses to be corrupted by the world around him and chooses a low paying job and a life of poverty over prosperity and family responsibilities; however, the more he struggles against the money god, the more he realizes that it is a futile journey.
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Pub. Date
1992
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xlii, 325 p. ; 21 cm.
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While the totalitarianism that provoked George Orwell into writing 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' seems to be passing into oblivion, his harrowing, cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate, and its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade.
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Pub. Date
[1958]
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xxii, 232 pages ; 21 cm.
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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 English working class. Foreword by Victor Gollancz. -- Amazon.com.
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c2003
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Winston Smith (Hurt) endures a squalid existence in totalitarian Oceania under the constant surveillance of Big Brother. But his life takes a horrifying turn when he begins a forbidden love affair and commits the crime of independent thought. Sent to the chillingly labeled 'Ministry of Love, ' he is placed at the mercy of O'Brien (Burton), a coolly treacherous leader determined to control his thoughts-- and crush his soul"--Crime and punishment is...