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  Notes on nationalism

  George Orwell

  • Adult Pbs
  • Modern Classics
  • 22 Février 2018
  • 9780241339565

  ' The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs ' Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote about his nation better than anyone. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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  Down and out in paris and london

  George Orwell

  • Adult Pbs
  • 5 Septembre 2013
  • 9780141042701

  A memoir of the author's time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris. It documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses, working as a dishwasher in the vile 'Hotel X', living alongside tramps, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts.
  

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  Homage to cCtalonia

  George Orwell

  • Adult Pbs
  • 28 Mars 2000
  • 9780141183053

  George Orwell's account of his experience as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. The book describes the chaos at the Front, the futile young deaths for what became a confused cause, the antique weapons and the disappointment many British Socialists felt on arriving in Spain to help.
  

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  Penguin great ideas : books v. cigarettes

  George Orwell

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  • Great Ideas
  • 7 Août 2008
  • 9780141036618

  Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic, from freedom of the press to what patriotism really means.
  
  Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
  

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  Politics and the English Language

  George Orwell

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  • 3 Janvier 2013
  • 9780141393063

  Politics and the English Language' is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth.'All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.'Language is a political issue, and slovenly use of language and cliches make it easier for those in power to deliberately use misleading language to hide unpleasant political facts. Bad English, he believed, was a vehicle for oppressive ideology, and it is no accident that 'Politics and the English Language' was written after the close of World War II.
  

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  Burmese Days

  George Orwell

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  • Modern Classics
  • 20 Décembre 2001
  • 9780141185378

  When Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Indian Dr Veraswami, he defies the bigoted orthodoxy of the time. The doctor is in danger: U Po Kyin, a corrupt magistrate, is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is membership of the all-white club.
  

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  Decline of the english murder

  George Orwell

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  • Great Ideas
  • 27 Août 2009
  • 9780141191263

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  Shooting an elephant: and other essays

  George Orwell

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  • 5 Juin 2003
  • 9780141187396

  A landmark collection of Orwell's writings, with a new Introduction by Jeremy Paxman

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  The orwell diaries

  George Orwell

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  • 3 Juin 2010
  • 9780141191546

  George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. The Orwell Diaries presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook. An entry from 1931 tells of a communal shave in the Trafalgar Square fountains, while notes from his travels through industrial England show the development of the impassioned social commentator.
  
  
  This same acute power of observation is evident in his diaries from Morocco, as well as at home, where his domestic diaries chart the progress of his garden and animals with a keen eye; the wartime diaries, from descriptions of events overseas to the daily violence closer to home, describe astutely his perspective on the politics of both, and provide a new and entirely refreshing insight into Orwell's character and his great works.
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  Dormant ; burmeses days

  George Orwell

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  • 4 Octobre 2013
  • 9780141395135

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  Dormant ; the road to wigan pier

  George Orwell

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  • 4 Octobre 2013
  • 9780141395142

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  Dormant ; essays

  George Orwell

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  • 4 Octobre 2013
  • 9780141395159

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  Dormant ; keep the aspidistra flying

  George Orwell

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  • 4 Octobre 2013
  • 9780141395166

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  The complete novels of george orwell

  George Orwell

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  • Modern Classics
  • 20 Mai 2009
  • 9780141190396

  Includes novels that are concerned with individuals at odds with repressive institutions.
  

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  Some thoughts on ; the common toad

  George Orwell

  • Adult Pbs
  • Great Ideas
  • 26 Août 2010
  • 9780141191270

  In this collection of eight witty and sharply written essays, Orwell looks at, among others, the joys of spring (even in London), the picture of humanity painted by Gulliver and his travels, and the strange benefit of the doubt that the public permit Salvador Dali. Also included here are a mouth-watering essay on the delights of English Cooking and a shocking account of killing an elephant in Burma.
  
  
  GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
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