Author: George Orwell

A new edition of Orwell's starkly realistic second novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D. J. TaylorFirst published in 1935, when Orw...

A new edition of Orwell's debut novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D. J. TaylorFirst published in 1934, and a bitter souvenir of Or...

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU . . . 1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three superstates. In Oceania, the Party's power...

Unfailingly elegant and endlessly relevant, the four essays in this collection treat literature as a vital record of our political hypocrisies, our...

Including Homage to Catalonia''Spain not only defined Orwell as an individual, it also gave him his first glimpse of totalitarianism'' D. J. Taylor...

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. George Orwell was one of the most ce...

Before the war! How long shall we go on saying that, I wonder? How long before the answer will be 'Which war?' The approach of the Second World Wa...

Poverty is what I am writing about. In the late 1920s, Eric Blair resigned his post as a colonial policeman in Burma, immersed himself in the slum...

'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others'When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take ov...

Under the feckless husbandry of Mr Jones, the Manor Farm has fallen into disrepair. Pushed into hardship, the animals decide to stage a revolt,...

'The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which...

'The face was quite unfamiliar to her, and yet not strange. She had not known till this moment what face to expect'. A Clergyman's Daughter is Geo...

AW ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MAIR EQUAL THAN ITHERSIt didnae seem unco when Napoleon wis seen daunderin aboot the fairmhoose gairden w...

A new edition of Orwell's early account of bleak working class life in the industrial culture of Yorkshire and Lancashire, which revealed the disti...

A new edition with a new introduction, this is a deeply personal record of Orwell's growing despair and disillusionment with the Spanish Civil War,...