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: No markings
Condition remarks: Jacket worn from age but not faded - still in good condition.
This landmark omnibus collects six of George Orwell's most celebrated works of fiction, presenting a sweeping portrait of one of the twentieth century's most incisive literary minds. Animal Farm delivers its devastating allegorical critique of totalitarianism through the darkly comic tale of a farmyard revolution gone wrong, while Nineteen Eighty-Four constructs a chilling, suspenseful vision of a surveillance state that has permanently shaped the political imagination of the modern world. The earlier novels — Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, and Keep the Aspidistra Flying — chronicle the struggles of ordinary men and women trapped by imperialism, poverty, social convention, and the quiet desperation of middle-class life in pre-war England. Orwell's prose throughout is precise, unsparing, and shot through with a mordant wit that transforms social observation into urgent moral argument. Taken together, these six works illustrate the full range of Orwell's genius, tracing his evolution from sharp-eyed social realist to the author of two of the most important political novels ever written.
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: No markings
Condition remarks: Jacket worn from age but not faded - still in good condition.
This landmark omnibus collects six of George Orwell's most celebrated works of fiction, presenting a sweeping portrait of one of the twentieth century's most incisive literary minds. Animal Farm delivers its devastating allegorical critique of totalitarianism through the darkly comic tale of a farmyard revolution gone wrong, while Nineteen Eighty-Four constructs a chilling, suspenseful vision of a surveillance state that has permanently shaped the political imagination of the modern world. The earlier novels — Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, and Keep the Aspidistra Flying — chronicle the struggles of ordinary men and women trapped by imperialism, poverty, social convention, and the quiet desperation of middle-class life in pre-war England. Orwell's prose throughout is precise, unsparing, and shot through with a mordant wit that transforms social observation into urgent moral argument. Taken together, these six works illustrate the full range of Orwell's genius, tracing his evolution from sharp-eyed social realist to the author of two of the most important political novels ever written.