Description
Modern Classics The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman’s Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)
ISBN(s)
0141190396, 9780141190396
This volume contains the novels of perhaps the greatest British writer of the twentieth century, including two of the prophetically chilling works of the twentieth century–Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.Orwell was, in Henry James’s phrase, “one of those on whom nothing was lost,” and “perhaps the 20th century’s best chronicler of English culture,” The Economist. Orwell clear-sightedly looks at humanity and, in these six highly original novels, shows us what could go terribly wrong.
George Orwell’s early novels illuminate both his masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four and George Orwell himself.
After serving six years in the Imperial Police in Burma, Orwell was disgusted by imperialism Burmese Days, based on these years, is the story of a sensitive lonely Englishman in Burma. It is also “a crisp, fierce, and almost boisterous attack on the Anglo-Indian” (New Statesman).
