The Complete Novels of George Orwell
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This volume contains the novels of perhaps the greatest British writer of the twentieth century, including two of the prophetically chilling works of the twentieth century--Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.Orwell was, in Henry Jamess phrase, one of those on whom nothing was lost, and perhaps the 20th centurys best chronicler of English culture, The Economist. Orwell clear-sightedly looks at humanity and, in these six highly original novels, shows us what could go terribly wrong.George Orwells early novels illuminate both his masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four and George Orwell himself.After serving six years in the Imperial Police in Burma, Orwell was disgusted by imperialism Burmese Days, based on these years, is the story of a sensitive lonely Englishman in Burma. It is also a crisp, fierce, and almost boisterous attack on the Anglo-Indian (New Statesman). The great fascination of A Clergymans Daughter is that it is essentially the same plot of Nineteen Eighty-Four ... Its about somebody who is spied upon, and eavesdropped upon, and oppressed by vast exterior forces ... Its a very prophetic novel. (D. J. Taylor, Orwells biographer)The Aspidistra is a plant that never thrives, but tenaciously survives on British windowsills. It is a metaphor for the life of the British lower-middle class. Keep the Apsidistra Flying is a pointed observation of the British class system which is based on the worship of the Money God:And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is money. ... Dont you see that a mans whole personality is bound up with his income? His personality is his income. (Orwell, Keep the Apsidistra Flying).Coming up for Air is remarkably prescient. It foresees the scourges of poverty and totalitarianism, and, decades before Rachel Carsons Silent Spring, the destruction of the environment.Orwell wro
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