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A new edition of Orwell's elegiac fourth novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. TaylorFirst published in 1939 and dominated by the shadow of the Second World War, Coming up for Air finds fat, middle-aged and unhappily-married George Bowling trying to revisit the world of his Edwardian childhood in rural Oxforshire, only to discover that the certainties of his past are dead and that a very different future is looming up to clai...

A new and definitive edition of Burmese Days introduced and annotated by Orwell's prize-winning biographer.

A new and definitive edition of Burmese Days introduced and annotated by Orwell's prize-winning biographer.

A new edition of Orwell's end-of-tether third novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. TaylorFirst published in 1936, and drawing on Orwell's own experiences of working in a Hampstead bookshop, Keep the Aspidistra Flying tracks the career of Gordon Comstock ('nearly 30 and moth-eaten already') a struggling poet who tries to rebel against the conventions of middle-class English life, only to be drawn inexorably back into the worl...

Orwell is most well-known for his two famous novels Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, but their dystopian vision was informed by observations of poverty in England (Down and Out in Paris' and London and Road to Wigan Pier), and disillusion with political and national events of the 1930s and 1940s. Homage to Catalonia chronicled his experience of the Spanish Civil War and formulated his revulsion against totalitarianism, highlighted in his ...