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Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan£10.99 George Bernard Shaw, Brad Kent
9780198793281 Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan are widely considered to be three of the most important in the canon of modern British theatre |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four£8.99 George Orwell, John Bowen
9780198829195 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), George Orwell's final novel, was completed in difficult conditions shortly before his early death. It is one of the most influential and widely-read novels of the post-war period. |
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Animal Farm£8.99 George Orwell, David Dwan
9780198813736 When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. |
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Coming Up for Air£9.99 George Orwell, Marina MacKay
9780198804819 Set at the beginning of the Second World War, Coming Up for Air describes suburban insurance agent George Bowling's return to his birthplace, a sedate Oxfordshire village. This new edition of one of George Orwell's early pre-war works explores the historical and political context of the novel. |
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying£9.99 George Orwell, Benjamin Kohlmann
9780198858317 "Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success." Gordon Comstock decides to live in poverty rather than compromise with the 'money god'. Disgusted by society's materialism, he leaves his job in advertising to pursue an ill-fated career as a poet. |
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A Clergyman's Daughter£10.99 George Orwell, Nathan Waddell
9780198848424 The most formally experimental of all of George Orwell's novels, A Clergyman's Daughter charts the course of a young woman's voyage out of a small town in East Anglia and her eventual homecoming. This new edition of the novel is the first in over 30 years. |
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Burmese Days£9.99 George Orwell, Rosinka Chaudhuri
9780198853701 Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel is set during the end days of British colonialism, when Burma is ruled from Delhi as part of British India. |
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Homage to Catalonia£7.99 George Orwell, Lisa Mullen
9780198838418 Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of the Spanish Civil War. It was the last and most mature of Orwell's documentary books. |
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Down and Out in Paris and London£8.99 George Orwell, John Brannigan
9780198835219 This new edition of Orwell's 1933 text comes with an authoratative introduction, explanatory notes, and a select bibliography to help first-time readers situate the novel in it's contexts and offer a fresh new re-evaluation of the work to returning readers. |
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Selected Essays£7.99 George Orwell, Stefan Collini
9780198804178 Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and there are quite a few of his essays which are probably better known than any of his other writings apart from Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. |
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The Road to Wigan Pier£9.99 George Orwell, Selina Todd
9780198850908 The Road to Wigan Pier is Orwell's 1937 study of poverty and working-class life in northern England. |