The Complete Novels of George Orwell

This meticulously edited collection of "The Complete Novels of George Orwell" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Burmese Days It is a tale from the waning days of British colonialism, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as a part of British Indiaa portrait of the dark side of the British Raj. A Clergyman's Daughter It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia. Keep the Aspidistra Flying It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results. Coming Up for Air Published shortly before the outbreak of World War II, it combines premonitions of the impending war with images of an idyllic Thames-side Edwardian era childhood. Animal Farm It is an allegorical novel which reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. 1984 It is a political and dystopian science-fiction novel set in Airstrip One, a province of the superstate Oceania. It is a mind-numbing world which in a state of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation.

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