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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950), much better known by the pen name George Orwell was a British author, journalist and socialist. George Orwell was born in Bengal, India, in 1903. Educated in England at Eton, he moved to Burma in 1922 where he joined the Indian Imperial Police for five years.
After a period doing a variety of jobs in France he returned to England where he opened a village shop. As a Marxist, Orwell was in danger of being murdered by communists in the Republican Army. With the help of the British Consul in Barcelona, Orwell was able to escape to France. Orwell published Coming up for Air in 1939.Noted as a political and cultural commentator, as well as an accomplished novelist, Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the 20th century. He is best known for two novels written towards the end of his short life: Animal Farm, a satire in fable form of the communist revolution in Russia, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in 1949, a pessimistic satire about the threat of political tyranny in the future. The novel had a tremendous impact and many of the new words and phrases used in the book passed into everyday language. George Orwell died of tuberculosis in 1950.

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Nineteen Eighty-four
Nineteen Eighty-four
George Orwell
Chosen by the public through a survey to coincide with the 10th birthday celebrations of World Book Day 2007, this title is one of ‘the ten books the nation can’t live without’.  Have you read them all? Below are...
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Animal Farm - the history of a revolution, under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Wellington leads to the animals taking over the farm but it all went wrong - is George Orwell's brilliant satire on the corrupting influence of...
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Books by George Orwell

Diaries
Diaries
George Orwell
George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. Covering the period 1931-1949, this volume follows Orwell from his early years as a writer up to his last literary notebook.
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Burmese Days
Burmese Days
George Orwell

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Nineteen Eighty Four
Nineteen Eighty Four
George Orwell

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The Lost Orwell
The Lost Orwell
George Orwell

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The Selected Essays
The Selected Essays
George Orwell

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Animal Farm
Animal Farm
George Orwell
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's modern fable on the way power corrupts is as apt as ever in the twenty-first century. Educational edition of this much-loved classic from Longman.
Format: Hardback - Released: 25/08/2000
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm
George Orwell, Julian Symons
Written during World War II and published in 1945, this is a sharp and celebrated satire on dictatorship. Orwell conveys his bleak message of man's inhumanity to man, and beast's to beast through stark prose and black comedy.
Format: Hardback - Released: 20/05/1993
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Animal Farm Play
Animal Farm Play
Peter Hall, George Orwell, Peter Hall
The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This dramatization of George Orwell's Animal Farm comes with lyrics by Adrian Mitchell...
Format: Hardback - Released: 18/01/1993
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1984
1984
George Orwell, Julian Symons
In Nineteen eighty-four , one of the 20th century's great myth-makers takes a cold look at the future. Orwell's study of individual struggling - or not struggling - against totalitarianism remains a salutary lesson in any society.
Format: Hardback - Released: 29/10/1992
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Nineteen Eighty-four
Nineteen Eighty-four
George Orwell
One of a series of fiction titles for schools, this is Orwell's classic novel in which every aspect of life is controlled by the State. Winston Smith thinks he's alone in remembering an earlier time when men and women lived...
Format: Hardback - Released: 23/02/1990
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm
George Orwell
One of a series of fiction titles for schools. In Orwell's classic story the animals, led by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, drive out Farmer Jones and set up an Animals' Republic in which all are to be free and...
Format: Hardback - Released: 11/12/1972
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