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Volume 7 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

Coming Up for Air looks back from the sprawl of thirties housing estates, new arterial roads and the domination of the motor car, to an idealised golden England, largely rural and unmechanised when, in the nostalgia of childhood, it was summer.

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Volume 1 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

Few authors can have striven so hard to make themselves professional writers as did George Orwell.

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The most important document that has come to light regarding Orwell's Spanish experiences is the deposition charging him and Eileen with espionage and high treason, a charge unknown to them. This volume also includes a sequence of letters that throws a completely new light on Orwell's personal relationships.

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It was published in an Italian edition of 2,060 copies in December 1948 and the first American edition of 4,000 copies, published by Harcourt, Brace in 1952, had to be reprinted almost immediately.

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Volume 17 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

On 29 March 1945, Orwell's wife Eileen died, aged 39. 'Politics and the English Language', one of Orwell's most important essays, was immediately reprinted for journalists of the Observer and News of the World as a guide to good writing.

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Volume 16 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

Orwell served as Literary Editor of Tribune from 29 November 1943 until he went to Continental Europe as War Correspondent for the Observer and the Manchester Evening News in mid February 1945.

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Volume 19 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

Much of 1947 and 1948 was taken up with Orwell's struggle to complete Nineteen Eighty-Four and his fight against illness.

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Volume 4 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

Originally published in 1936, before Orwell achieved fame, Keep the Aspidistra Flying takes Money as its theme.

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Volume 14 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

Orwell wrote to his anarchist friend, George Woodcock in December 1942 arguing that 'by working inside an institution like the BBC one can perhaps deodorise it to some extent', and he concluded, 'I consider I have kept our little corner of it fairly clean'.

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George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist. From his earliest published article in 1928 to his untimely death in 1950, he produced an extraordinary array of short non-fiction that reflected - and illuminated - the fraught times in which he lived and wrote. This book charts Orwell's development as a master of the narrative-essay form.

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Volume 9 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. This is the opening sentence of the most influential novel of the century, in English or in any of the sixty or more languages which boast a translation.

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Celebrating the seventieth anniversary of Coming up for Air and the sixtieth anniversary of 1984.

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The first part of Orwell's account, Gollancz wrote in Left News in April 1937, has done, perhaps in a greater degree than any previous book, what the [Left Book] Club is meant to do it has provoked thought and discussion of the keenest kind.

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The complex history of 'How the Poor Die' is unravelled, as is the problem posed by his passports giving his date of birth incorrectly, something that would prove significant in the writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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Volume 15 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

Writing to Philip Rahv on 9 December 1943, Orwell described his time at the BBC as 'two wasted years', yet this volume continues to show how much he achieved.

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This beautiful new edition of George Orwell's powerful work of dystopian fiction is a perfect gift for our times.

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A beautiful new edition of George Orwells timeless and timely allegorical novel.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

A group of farm animals rebel against their drunken, abusive owner and set out to create a utopia of equality.

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This volume collects all of Orwells major essays, including Shooting an Elephant, Inside the Whale, Politics and the English Language, Why I Write and Politics vs Literature: An Examination of Gullivers Travels, as well as a generous selection of shorter pieces on a variety of literary and political subjects.

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A dystopian masterpiece, 1984 is the powerful and prophetic novel that defined the twentieth century. This edition has a new, specially commissioned introduction by Alex Massie which recognises the importance that Barnhill, Orwells home on the Island of Jura, had on the writing of this classic.

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A new edition of this vitally important political novel from George Orwell. First published in 1945,Animal Farm the history of a revolution that went wrong is Orwells brilliant satire on the corrupting influence of power. Features an exclusive introduction by Alan Johnson.