Orwell's England
$40.21
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2020
Summary
All of Orwell’s brilliant writing on England and Englishness collected in a single volume
Much of George Orwell’s best writing, brought together in this comprehensive collection, is concerned with England, a country that he found both endearing and frustrating.
In the brilliantly perceptive The English People, he lists the national characteristics as ‘suspicion of foreigners, sentimentality about animals, hypocrisy, exaggerated class distinctions, and an obsession wit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241418024 |
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| ISBN-10: | 024141802X |
| Author: | George Orwell, Peter Davison, Ben Pimlott |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 341g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.
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