George Orwell's Novels

George Orwell's Novels is a single book that brings together the novels of this great Writer. All novels (fiction and no-fiction) more or less famous are inserted by publication dates and are: Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming Up for Air, The Toad to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia and Animal Farm.
Each novel is accompanied by a preface by Giancarlo Rossini.

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic.His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

As a writer, Orwell produced literary criticism and poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (19361939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics and literature, language and culture. In 2008, The Timesranked George Orwell second among "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practicesis part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Two Minutes Hate", "Room 101", "memory hole", "Newspeak", "doublethink", "proles", "unperson", and "thoughtcrime", as well as providing direct inspiration for the neologism "groupthink".

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