Animal Farm; Burmese Days; A Clergyman's Daughter; Coming Up For Air; Keep The Aspidistra Flying; Nineteen Eighty-Four
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
This landmark omnibus brings together six of George Orwell's most celebrated works of fiction, presenting the full breadth of his literary genius in a single essential volume. Animal Farm delivers its razor-sharp political allegory through the story of a farmyard revolution that chronicles the inevitable corruption of power, while Nineteen Eighty-Four constructs one of literature's most chilling dystopias, detailing a totalitarian surveillance state that has permanently shaped how the world understands tyranny. Burmese Days draws on Orwell's own imperial service to paint a damning portrait of British colonialism in Southeast Asia, and A Clergyman's Daughter and Coming Up For Air illustrate his deep sympathy for ordinary English men and women struggling against social conformity and the encroachment of modernity. Keep the Aspidistra Flying rounds out the collection with a biting, darkly comic indictment of money and middle-class respectability, as its protagonist wages a doomed war against the god of commerce. Taken together, these six novels argue with unflinching moral clarity that political oppression, economic inequality, and social hypocrisy are not abstract forces but lived, human realities — a testament to why Orwell remains one of the twentieth century's most indispensable voices.
Author: George Orwell
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, Secker & Warburg/Octopus
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
This landmark omnibus brings together six of George Orwell's most celebrated works of fiction, presenting the full breadth of his literary genius in a single essential volume. Animal Farm delivers its razor-sharp political allegory through the story of a farmyard revolution that chronicles the inevitable corruption of power, while Nineteen Eighty-Four constructs one of literature's most chilling dystopias, detailing a totalitarian surveillance state that has permanently shaped how the world understands tyranny. Burmese Days draws on Orwell's own imperial service to paint a damning portrait of British colonialism in Southeast Asia, and A Clergyman's Daughter and Coming Up For Air illustrate his deep sympathy for ordinary English men and women struggling against social conformity and the encroachment of modernity. Keep the Aspidistra Flying rounds out the collection with a biting, darkly comic indictment of money and middle-class respectability, as its protagonist wages a doomed war against the god of commerce. Taken together, these six novels argue with unflinching moral clarity that political oppression, economic inequality, and social hypocrisy are not abstract forces but lived, human realities — a testament to why Orwell remains one of the twentieth century's most indispensable voices.