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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 CATALONIA

George Orwell
- Adult Pbs
- 12 Décembre 2012
- 9780141393025
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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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
- Adult Pbs
- 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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The road to wigan pier

George Orwell
- Adult Pbs
- 2 Janvier 2014
- 9780141395456
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.
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Burmese Days

George Orwell
- Adult Pbs
- 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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Politics and the English Language

George Orwell
- Adult Pbs
- 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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The lion and the unicorn

George Orwell
- Adult Pbs
- 25 Janvier 2018
- 9780241315682
George Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change.The Lion and the Unicorn was written in London during the worst period of the blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his belief in socialism, patriotism and an English revolution. His fullest political statement, it has been described as 'one of the most moving and incisive portraits of the English character' and is as relevant now as it ever has been.
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Essays

George Orwell
- Adult Pbs
- 10 Décembre 2013
- 9780141395463
This anthology includes George Orwell's most famous pieces, among them "My Country Right or Left", "The Decline of the English Murder" and "How the Poor Die". With insight and wit, Orwell writes on a series of wide ranging topics, from the Spanish Civil War to a defence of English cooking.
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Decline of the english murder

George Orwell
- Adult Pbs
- Great Ideas
- 27 Août 2009
- 9780141191263
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Seeing things as they are

George Orwell
- Adult Pbs
- Modern Classics
- 10 Août 2016
- 9780141984230
'This selection is a ceaseless delight ... there is a treat on almost every page' Daily Telegraph

George Orwell wrote, in his words, from 'a desire to see things as they are'. This new collection of his journalism and other writings, including articles, essays, broadcasts, poems, book and film reviews from across his career, shows his unmatched genius for observing the world. Whether discussing Polish immigration or Scottish independence, railing against racism, defending the English language or holding an imaginary conversation with Jonathan Swift, these pieces reveal a clear-eyed, entertaining and eternally relevant chronicler of his age.Edited with an introduction by Peter Davison'Orwell's luminous gift was for seeing things, for noticing what others missed, took for granted or simply found uninteresting, for discovering meaning and wonder in the familiarity of the everyday... Nothing escaped or seemed beneath his notice, which was what made him such a good reporter... Seeing Things As They Are is intended to be a collection first and foremost of his journalism, with preference given to lesser-known pieces and reviews as well as some of the poems he wrote. It is full of interest and curiosities' Jason Cowley, Financial Times'Peter Davison gives us a feast of [Orwell's] shorter writings, showing how from such hesitant beginnings he evolved into the writer of enduring importance we know, committed to decency, equality and political honesty, who could nevertheless wax lyrical over the first signs of spring or an imaginary English pub' Gordon Bowker, Independent
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Shooting an elephant: and other essays

George Orwell
- Adult Pbs
- 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
- Adult Pbs
- 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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Such, such were the joys

George Orwell
- Adult Pbs
- 10 Décembre 2013
- 9780141394374
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Dormant:homage to catalonia

George Orwell
- Adult Pbs
- 1 Décembre 2012
- 9780241966235
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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
- Adult Pbs
- Modern Classics
- 20 Mai 2009
- 9780141190396
Includes novels that are concerned with individuals at odds with repressive institutions.
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Orwell in spain

George Orwell
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- 26 Octobre 2006
- 9780141185163
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Orwell's england

George Orwell
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- 26 Janvier 2006
- 9780141185170
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Orwell and politics

George Orwell
- Adult Pbs
- 25 Mai 2006
- 9780141185187
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