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Shooting an Elephant
2024 || Hardcover || George Orwell || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Orwell and England
Selected Essays
2024 || Hardcover || George Orwell || Pan Macmillan
A collection of Orwell’s compellingly perceptive essays on subjects from food to weather to unemployment, edited and introduced by Professor Michael Gardiner.
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Down and Out in Paris and London
The classic reimagined with cover art by Shepard Fairey
2024 || Paperback || George Orwell || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
To be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was to experience life at its lowest ebb. George Orwell, penniless and with nowhere to go, found himself experiencing just this as he wandered the streets of both capitals in search of a job. This book gives an account of the streets and those who have no choice but to live on them.
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The Road to Wigan Pier
2024 || Paperback || George Orwell || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Deals with the working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, the Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. This title includes descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, and more.
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Animal Farm
The dystopian classic reimagined with cover art by Shepard Fairey
2024 || Paperback || George Orwell || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Animal Farm, by George Orwell - author of 1984, one of Britain's most popular novels - is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption. 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to...
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Essays
2024 || Paperback || George Orwell || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Features that illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose, this essays create a literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and continue to challenge, move and entertain.
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The Road to Wigan Pier
New Annotated Edition
2024 || Paperback || George Orwell || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Now presented in a new annotated edition, The Road to Wigan Pier represents a unique record of a society riven by class inequality and plagued by unemployment, inadequate housing, unsafe working conditions and other social ills, as well as providing an invaluable insight into the evolution of Orwell's political consciousness.