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George Orwell (page 3)


Cover art for ANIMAL FARM
FICTION
Released: Aug. 26, 1946

"MPSLUGMISTER Orwell's animals exist in their own right, with a narrative as individual as it is apt in political parody."
A modern day fable, with modern implications in a deceiving simplicity, by the author of Dickens. Read full book review >
Cover art for DICKENS, DALI AND OTHERS
FICTION
Released: April 15, 1946

"A personal, serious, but never dull analysis that has a definite worth in its challenges, in its integrity."
Ten essays, consistently controversial, that range widely between a long one, in six parts, on Dickens, shorter ones on boys' weeklies', H.G. Wells, comic postcards, Kipling, Yeats, Dall, Koostler, detective stories, Wodehouse. Read full book review >
Cover art for BURMESE DAYS
FICTION
Released: Oct. 25, 1934

"And the story itself is not particularly worth telling."
Orwell can write — he proved it in Down and Out in Paris and London. Read full book review >