Homage to Catalonia

Author: George Orwell

In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fascists. This famous account describes the war and Orwell’s experiences. Introduction by Lionel Trilling…..Read More

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Burmese Days

George Orwell's first novel, inspired by his own experiences in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, Burmese Days includes a new introduction by Emma Larkin in Penguin Modern Classics. Based… Continue Reading Posted in: British & Irish Literature, English Fiction, Illustrated Wrappers (Book Covers) England 2009, Paperbacks England 2009

Brighton Rock

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, British & Irish Literary Fiction, Classic British & Irish Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Suspense Fiction

The Road to Wigan Pier

A searing account of George Orwell’s experiences of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Kindle eBooks, Social Conditions, The English Novel In The 19th & 20th Centuries

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Instead of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long'Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire compresses thirteen… Continue Reading Posted in: Ancient, Ancient History, Byzantine Empire, European History, History

Coming Up for Air

George Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one man's attempt to recapture childhood innocence as… Continue Reading Posted in: 1900, Fiction Classics, Fiction In English, Fiction In English 1900 Texts, Literature & Fiction, Manners And Customs

The Periodic Table

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element, the collection tells of… Continue Reading Posted in: Autobiography, Historical Italy Biographies, History, Holocaust Fiction, Italian History

American Vampire, Volume 6

You are cordially invited to a party--to die for! This volume of American Vampire collects eight amazing stories set in the world of American Vampire, with "lost tales," new characters… Continue Reading Posted in: Horror, Sequential Art

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Nearly 30 and "rather moth-eaten already," a poet whose one small book of… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Fiction Classics, Literature & Fiction, Social Life And Customs, Wealth

We

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet RussiaYevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George… Continue Reading Posted in: Abstract Or Summary, Bibliography, Classic Literature & Fiction, Dystopian Fiction, Russian Fiction

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire apparatus of Soviet… Continue Reading Posted in: 1918 2008, Aleksandr Isaevich, Gulag Nkvd, Solzhenit︠S︡Yn, Soviet Union

1984

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition. “Orwell saw, to his credit,… Continue Reading Posted in: Dystopian, Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction

The Royal Physician’s Visit

Winner of top literary prizes in Sweden and France, Enquist's epic of power, love, and madness in 1760s Denmark is an extraordinarily elegant and gorgeous novel. Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Historical

For Whom The Bell Tolls

High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Guerrilla Warfare, War Stories

Why I Write

Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war, Orwell's timeless, uncompromising essays are more relevant, entertaining and essential than ever in… Continue Reading Posted in: 1903 1950, George), Orwell, Paperbacks England 2004, Typefaces Monotype Dante England 2004

A Collection of Essays

George Orwell's collected nonfiction, written in the clear-eyed and uncompromising style that earned him a critical following One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentieth century, George… Continue Reading Posted in: 1903 1950, English Literature, George), Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great… Continue Reading Posted in: Biography, Fiction, French Travel, Narration ã  La Premiã¨Re Personne, Travel

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