The Complete Novels of George Orwell by George Orwell (EPUB)

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The complete novels of George OrwellANIMAL FARMNINETEEN EIGHTY-FOURBURMESE DAYSKEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYINGCOMING UP FOR AIRTHE CLERGYMAN’S DAUGHTER They are complete with a TABLE OF CONTENTS (links) for all novels and all chapters for easy use. ANIMAL FARM Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language and a belief in democratic socialism. Considered perhaps the 20th century’s best chronicler of English culture, Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945), which together have sold more copies than any two books by any other 20th-century author. Animal Farm is the most famous satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism. Published in 1945, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was a critic of Joseph Stalin, and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences with the NKVD during the Spanish Civil War. The book was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best English language novels (1923 to 2005) and was number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th Century Novels. The novel describes how a society’s ideologies can be manipulated and twisted by individuals in positions of social and political power, including how a utopian society is made impossible by the corrupting nature of the very power necessary to create it. NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR is a novel by George Orwell published in 1949. It is a dystopian and satirical novel about Oceania, a society tyrannized by The Party and its totalitarian ideology. The Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public mind control, dictated by a political system. The population is under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite that persecutes all individualism and independent thinking as thoughtcrimes. Their tyranny is headed by Big Brother, the quasi-divine Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality, but who may not even exist. Big Brother and the Party justify their rule in the name of a supposed greater good.BURMESE DAYS is a tale from the waning days of British colonialism, when Burma was ruled as part of the Indian empire – “a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj.” At its centre is John Flory, “the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature.” Orwell’s first novel, it describes “corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, “after all, natives were natives – interesting, no doubt, but finally…an inferior people.” KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING, first published 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. 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. Comstock’s life is a mess, but whenever he has the chance to improve his position he destroys it, because it would be giving in to financial interests. Eventually, he does redeem himself, but grudgingly. Still, it is an entertaining novel, and gives a picture of life in England around 1930. Orwell wrote the book in 1934 and 1935 when he was living at various locations near Hampstead in London, and drew on his experiences in these and the preceding few years. At the beginning of 1928 he lived in lodgings in Portobello Road from where he started his tramping expeditions, sleeping rough and roaming in the poorer parts of London.

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⭐It’s George Orwell… shut up! … get in line! … buy the d–n book. So what! … there’s cameras in every isle of the bookstore and a clerk is looking at you, via curved mirror two book racks over. A phone rings, this clerk has answered and is now looking directly at me. Making eye contact for mere nanoseconds, muscles in my neck stiffen. I feel a halting drop of sweat inching it’s way across knuckles toward my little finger. As I raise my purchase up to the counter, a cashier using an over cultured tone of voice, squinting right eye says; “Do you have a membership card?””NOooo!”That’s why I ordered from amazon.

⭐Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm was one of required reading during my time in high school in California (private school). It was really the first time I learned about this great author and his writings around the dangers of totalitarian regimes and socialism and communism. I don’t know if these two books are required reading in public schools these days, but they should be. Animal Farm is such a great read and having read the book 4 times in my lifetime, I can equate so many regimes and politicians to the characters in this book.

⭐I read this book fifty years ago. I am very glad I read it again. It was excellent

⭐I bought it for the two favorite analogies of greed or power taking over the socialist desire for community. It’s simple enough, but this author is famous for so many quotes about the possibilities of today. His other novellas and shorts will have to be for further study. Blame my current A.D.D. and life events for jumping directly to the desert cart.

⭐I loved the timing, how prophetic! To see how it could happen and to compare it to world issues of today, is astounding. I hated the scebes of violence and torture, however, and sped through them

⭐The politically correct Newspeak, the party line “Truth” complete with criminalization of any objective fact that contradicts it, the self deluding hypocrisy of Doublethink, and the obsessive desire to exert power over others by abuse and degradation…. Orwell saw the modern “progressive” coming almost a century ago. Free men should read it as a warning of what collectivists would do with the world if the get the power they so covet.Pity some of his other works aren’t nearly as good, Animal Farm is another dead on target political piece, but Burmese Days and Clergyman’s Daughter are terrible.

⭐Among the modern British novelist (Joyce, Woolf, and Lawrence), Orwell is usually placed in an “also ran” position. However, his lesser read novels are actually better than the 2 for which he is most famous and are should place him higher in the celebrated canon.

⭐Good value. I wanted to revisit 1984 and sample a few other of his works.

⭐Misleading title. Depends on how you define novels but it isn’t all of his long form pieces. No Homage to Catalonia, Road to Wigan Pier, or Down and Out in Paris and London. Orwell was a genius, what’s here is great but I do feel misled/cheated by the publisher.

⭐Hadn’t read Orwell since my late school / college days. Recently came across a review of one of his books, and was intrigued.Found this gem which included the reviewed novel, and also 1984, Animal Farm, and two others. I read the three in relatively quick time, and will leave the two others until later.At such a low price, this is most definitely a book to add to any collection, which you can leave, and return to again and again.

⭐Is what it says on the tin. Am looking forward to dipping into Keep the Aspidistra Flying again, and have yet to read Coming Up For Air.Orwell’s insight would be welcomed in these political climes, such as what he would make of traitor’s tales being sold as fiction to cash in.

⭐I have read most but not all of these novels in my youth – this book has the complete set which means I now have no excuse not to read the ones I missed before – the book is entitrely what it says on the cover – the complete novels – nothing more nothing less

⭐Fantastic book author so perceptive and a pleasure to read all his stories.

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