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Nineteen Eighty-Four (The Complete Works of George Orwell, V. 9)
George Orwell / Hardcover / Expected January 2001
(Not Yet Published)
Outside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere.

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1984
George Orwell / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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Outside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere.

Animal Farm
George Orwell / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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A lavish gift edition celebrates the classic tale's fiftieth year of publication and features one hundred full-color and halftone illustrations that bring to life the satirical story of the Soviet Union.

Rebelion En LA Granja/Animal Farm
George Orwell / Unknown Binding / Published October 1999
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1984 (spanish)
George Orwell / Paperback / Published January 1999
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Animal Farm (Transaction Large Print Books)
George Orwell / Hardcover / Published January 1999
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A lavish gift edition celebrates the classic tale's fiftieth year of publication and features one hundred full-color and halftone illustrations that bring to life the satirical story of the Soviet Union.

Animal Farm (Modern Critical Interpretations)
Harold Bloom(Editor), et al / Library Binding / Published January 1999
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A lavish gift edition celebrates the classic tale's fiftieth year of publication and features one hundred full-color and halftone illustrations that bring to life the satirical story of the Soviet Union.

Bloom's Reviews/ Comprehensive Research & Study Guides: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
Harold Bloom(Editor), et al / Paperback / Published December 1998
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Outside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere.

George Orwell's Animal Farm (Bloom's Reviews : Comprehensive Research & Study Guides)
Harold Bloom(Editor), George Orwell / Paperback / Published December 1998
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A lavish gift edition celebrates the classic tale's fiftieth year of publication and features one hundred full-color and halftone illustrations that bring to life the satirical story of the Soviet Union.

Rebelion En LA Granja
George Orwell, Rafael Abella / Paperback / Published September 1998
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1984 : Spanish Edition
George Orwell / Turtleback / Published June 1998
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
George Orwell, Michael Kitchen (Narrator) / Audio Cassette / Published April 1998
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Orwell regarded this early autobiographical work as embarrassingly self-involved, but he didn't give himself enough credit. It nonetheless offers the pleasures of his keen observation and sardonic wit. Kitchen, too, performs a neat trick. He manages to keep Orwell's self-loathing hero, Gordon Comstack, just this side of sympathetic, not a small accomplishment for such an exasperating character. Gordon, a dreadful, deservedly unsuccessful poet, purposely keeps himself in penury while simultaneously blaming his poverty for his lack of recognition and romantic happiness. With his expert timing an...

The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell / Audio Cassette / Published August 1997
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Although George Orwell grew up in the relative comfort of the English middle class, his socialist convictions and general sense of fairness led him to hate his country's deeply ingrained class structure. That perspective permeates this book, but the most striking elements are the quotidian details of life that Orwell observes in his first-person account of the lives of coal miners and others in the poor north of England. Wigan Pier is almost too realistic at times, as Orwell brings his unparalleled powers of observation to portray the wretched conditions of the working class. That Orwell may h...

Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell / Audio Cassette / Published August 1997
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Part autobiography, this unusual novel follows the experiences of a penniless adventurer, first in Paris in the early 1930s and later in London, where he mingles among tramps and street people.

Keep the Aspidistra Flying
George Orwell / Audio Cassette / Published August 1997
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Orwell's satirical picture of "the money world" is revealed in the story of a young man who works by day in a grubby London bookstore and spends his evenings shivering in a rented room trying to write. 7 cassettes.

Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell / Audio Cassette / Published August 1997
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Homage to Catalonia is a triumph. The book lends itself to audio, not just because of Orwell's clear, reflective reporting on the Spanish Civil War, but also because of his superb descriptive powers. The observational passages leave the listener with lasting impressions of Spain and the Spanish character, and indeed the character of the war itself. Frederick Davidson makes a fine reader. He sounds convincingly as Orwell might have sounded, even to the occasional use of French-accented Spanish pronunciation. The audio presentation adds a new dimension to a text which is required reading for any...

Burmese Days [ABRIDGED]
George Orwell / Audio Cassette / Published June 1997
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Imagine crossing E.M. Forster with Jane Austen. Stir in a bit of socialist doctrine, a sprig of satire, strong Indian curry, and a couple quarts of good English gin and you get something close to the flavor of George Orwell's intensely readable and deftly plotted Burmese Days. In 1930, Kyauktada, Upper Burma, is one of the least auspicious postings in the ailing British Empire--and then the order comes that the European Club, previously for whites only, must elect one token native member. This edict brings out the worst in this woefully enclosed society, not to mention among the natives who wo...

Homage to Catalonia [ABRIDGED]
George Orwell, Samuel West / Audio Cassette / Published June 1997
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Autobiographical account by George Orwell of his experience as a volunteer for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, published in 1938. Unlike other foreign intellectual leftists, Orwell and his wife did not join the International Brigade but instead enlisted in the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (Partido Obrero de Unificacion Marxista; POUM). The book chronicles both his observations of the drudgery of the daily life of a soldier and his disillusionment with political infighting and totalitarianism.

Down and Out in Paris and London [ABRIDGED]
George Orwell, Louis de Bernieres / Audio Cassette / Published June 1997
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Autobiographical work by George Orwell, published in 1933. Orwell's first published book, it contains essays in which actual events are recounted in a fictionalized form. The book recounts that to atone for the guilt he feels about the conditions under which the disenfranchised and downtrodden peoples of the world exist, Orwell decides to live and work as one of them. Dressed as a beggar, he takes whatever employment might be available to a poverty-stricken outcast of Europe. In Paris he lives in a slum and works as a dishwasher. The essay "How the Poor Die" describes conditions at a charity h...

Animal Farm
George Orwell / Library Binding / Published April 1997
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
A lavish gift edition celebrates the classic tale's fiftieth year of publication and features one hundred full-color and halftone illustrations that bring to life the satirical story of the Soviet Union.

Nineteen Eighty-Four [ABRIDGED]
George Orwell, Timothy West (Reader) / Audio Cassette / Published September 1996
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Published in 1949, Ninety Eighty-Four is Orwell's terrifing vision of a totalitarian future. Its hero, Winston Smith, is a worker at the Ministry of Truth, where he falsifies records for the party. Secretly subversive, he and his colleague Julia try to free themselves from political slavery but the price of freedom is betrayal. 6 cassettes.

Animal Farm : A Fairy Story
George Orwell, et al / Paperback / Published June 1996
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Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willi...

Animal Farm
George Orwell, Timothy West (Reader) / Audio Cassette / Published June 1996
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More than 50 years after its publication, Animal Farm stands as a brilliantly ironic, classical political satire, bitingly relevant for today's audiences. In this merciless tale of pig-headed avaricious totalitarian government, Orwell relates the saga of a rural revolution, told in the style of a traditional beast fable. 2 cassettes.

Animal Farm : A Fairy Story
George Orwell, Ralph Steadman (Illustrator) / Hardcover / Published May 1996
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A lavish gift edition celebrates the classic tale's fiftieth year of publication and features one hundred full-color and halftone illustrations that bring to life the satirical story of the Soviet Union.

Animal Farm : A Fairy Story
George Orwell, et al / Mass Market Paperback / Published April 1996
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I read your book and watch the movie of Animal Farm and the book is much better than the movie. This is because the book gives more deatails than the movie.

Max Notes 1984
George Orwell, Karen Brodeur / Paperback / Published May 1995
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MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independ ent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions. MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of the plot, the work's historical context, illustrations to convey ...

Such, Such Were the Joys and Other Essays
George Orwell, Frederick Davidson / Audio Cassette / Published March 1995
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Animal Farm (Everyman's Library Series)
George Orwell, et al / Hardcover / Published June 1993
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A lavish gift edition celebrates the classic tale's fiftieth year of publication and features one hundred full-color and halftone illustrations that bring to life the satirical story of the Soviet Union.

Burmese Days (7 Cassettes)
George Orwell / Audio Cassette / Published December 1992
Price: $44.95 Special Order
Imagine crossing E.M. Forster with Jane Austen. Stir in a bit of socialist doctrine, a sprig of satire, strong Indian curry, and a couple quarts of good English gin and you get something close to the flavor of George Orwell's intensely readable and deftly plotted Burmese Days. In 1930, Kyauktada, Upper Burma, is one of the least auspicious postings in the ailing British Empire--and then the order comes that the European Club, previously for whites only, must elect one token native member. This edict brings out the worst in this woefully enclosed society, not to mention among the natives who wo...

Burmese Days (7 Cassettes)
George Orwell / Audio Cassette / Published December 1992
Price: $49.95 Special Order
This bitter and satirical picture of the white man's rule in Upper Burma--with its complex storylines woven throughout--immerses the reader in the world of India as the diamond of the fading British Empire. 7 cassettes.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (Everyman's Library)
George Orwell / Hardcover / Published October 1992
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Outside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere.

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