The Greatest Works of George Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia…

by George Orwell

This meticulously edited collection of "The Greatest Works of George Orwell" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of
Burmese Days
A Clergyman's Daughter
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Coming Up for Air
Animal Farm
1984
Down and Out in Paris and London
The Road to Wigan Pier
Homage to Catalonia

1905 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 31, 2019

About the author

Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both fascism and stalinism), and support of democratic socialism.

Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture.

Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"—describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices—is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Room 101", "Newspeak", "memory hole", "doublethink", and "thoughtcrime". In 2008, The Times named Orwell the second-greatest British writer since 1945.

Reviews

[Judith Glover]

The thing that delighted me about this book also nearly drove me mad with frustration at others. The language and descriptions are astonishingly rich, as are the characters, yet sometimes the density of the language gets in the way of the flow of the story. Nevertheless you have to admire the sheer originality of the writing.

[ben c]

very insightful , only had read some of these. 5.0 out of 5 stars Essential English Lit. reading, (I got this collection free /zero € on kindle at the time)