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The title essay in this collection reveals the abuse Orwell experienced as a child at an expensive boarding school, offering insights into his lifelong concern for the oppressed. Other essays focus on figures such as Gandhi and Dickens.

8 witty and sharply written essays from Orwell on a broad range of topics, published in the "Great Ideas" series.

Celebrating the seventieth anniversary of Coming up for Air and the sixtieth anniversary of 1984.

Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in India in 1903. He was educated at Eton, served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, and worked in Britain as a private tutor, schoolteacher, bookshop assistant and journalist. In 1936, Orwell went to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded. In 1938 he was admitted into a sanatorium and from then on was never fully fit. George Orwell died in London in 1950.

The title essay in this collection reveals the abuse Orwell experienced as a child at an expensive boarding school, offering insights into his lifelong concern for the oppressed. Other essays focus on figures such as Gandhi and Dickens.

George Orwell was renowned for his use and analysis of the English language. Anyone interested in language will find these six famous pithy essays instructive and engaging. The essays are: Politics and the English Language. Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels The Prevention of Literature Why I Write Writers and Leviathan. Poetry and the Microphone This edition provides generous margins for the reader's notes. ...

George Orwell was renowned for his use and analysis of the English language. Anyone interested in language will find these six famous pithy essays instructive and engaging. The essays are: Politics and the English Language. Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels The Prevention of Literature Why I Write Writers and Leviathan. Poetry and the Microphone This edition provides generous margins for the reader's notes...

In the 1930s Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. He went beyond his assignment to investigate the employed as well-"to see the most typical section of the English working class." Foreword by Victor Gollancz.

Born in India in 1903 George Orwell moved to England with his family in 1907. He was educated at Eton and joined the Indian Imperial Police, serving five years in Burma before returning to Europe. The period of poverty that followed inspired DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON (1933). In 1937 he published THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER. His political convictions led him to fight for the Republicans in Spain and to write HOMAGE TO CATALONIA. In 1945 ANIMA...

Gordon Comstock is a poor young man who works in a grubby London bookstore and spends his evenings shivering in a rented room, trying to write. He is determined to stay free of the "money world" of lucrative jobs, family responsibilities, and the kind of security symbolized by the homely aspidistra plant that sits in every middle-class British window.

This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical, narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. In the tales of both cities we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and society.

Ten celebrated essays by a man universally regarded as a master of the essay form. Included are such classics as "Charles Dickens, " "The Art of Donald McGill, " "Boys' Weeklies, " "Raffles and Miss Blandish, " and "Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali.

Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the world's greatest authors, the English language comes to life...

Gedanken über Arbeit, Freiheit, Gewalt, Macht, Religion, Technik und Zukunft. Ein pragmatisches Wörterbuch, das dem Leser mehr bietet als so mancher Ratgeber.

Orwellian genius.