| INDEX |
HOW TO ORDER |
CONDITION CODE |
SHIPPING OPTIONS |
CONTACT US |
|
|
George Orwell
|
|||||
|
CLICK THE APPROPRIATE “ADD TO CART” BUTTON AT RIGHT TO PLACE AN ORDER |
SHIPMENT |
INTER- |
|||
 |
Animal Farm
[SF, dystopia] Signet paperback, reprint of
1974 edition, with an introduction by C. M. Woodhouse – “A
devastating attack on the pig-headed, gluttonous and avaricious rulers
in an imaginary totalitarian state... it illuminates the range of human
experience from love to hate, from comedy to tragedy.” (publisher’s
description) “A wise, compassionate and illuminating fable for our
time... reminiscent of Anatole France and even of Swift.” – New York
Times
[VG] $4.99 |
||||
 |
Burmese Days
[novel]
Popular Library paperback #G214, 2nd printing, March 1951 – Orwell’s
first novel. “...a sharply satirical tale of England’s colonial
governing class at its best and worst extremes between which he sees
little distinction.” – San Francisco Chronicle; “...relentlessly
honest... a compelling book, one of the few novels arising from the
political ferment of the 1930s that are likely to survive their milieu.”
– The Nation
[G] $9.99 |
||||
 |
A Collection of
Essays
Doubleday Anchor paperback,
1954 – In this bestselling compilation of essays, written in the
clear-eyed, uncompromising language for which he is famous, Orwell
discusses with vigor such diverse subjects as his boyhood schooling, the
Spanish Civil War, Henry Miller, British imperialism, and the profession
of writing. Includes Reflections on Gandhi, On Shooting an Elephant,
Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, and ten other essays.
[G–] $2.99 |
||||
 |
Homage
to Catalonia
[memoir, history, anarchism] Beacon trade paperback, 2nd
printing, 1955 –
Orwell’s first person account of his experiences as a militia member in
the Spanish Civil War. “Practically every building of any size had been
seized by the workers and was draped with red flags or with the red and
black flag of the Anarchists; every wall was scrawled with the hammer
and sickle and with the initials of the revolutionary parties...”
[VG] $6.99 |
||||
 |
Nineteen Eighty-four
[SF, dystopia] Signet paperback, reprint of the
1961 edition, with an afterword by Erich Fromm – “In the world of
1984 the Party keeps itself in power by complete control over man’s
thoughts and actions... the Party can smash the last impulse of love, the last flicker of individuality... It is not only
a political novel, but also a diagnosis of the deepest alienation in the
mind or Organization Man.” (publisher’s description)
[VG] $4.99 |
||||
|
|
Nineteen Eighty-four Signet paperback, commemorative edition, 1984 – the classic story of a future repressive totalitarian regime, including a preface by Walter Cronkite, an afterword by Erich Fromm, and a bibliography. “Seldom has a book provided a greater wealth of symbols for its age and for the generations to follow, and seldom have literary symbols been invested with such power... a power that seems to grow with the passage of time.” (from the preface) [VG] $4.99 | ||||
|
|
The Road
to Wigan Pier
[memoir, sociology, political science]
Berkley Medalion paperback, 1967 – This book was commissioned and
published in 1937 by the Left Book Club, an English anti-fascist and
pro-socialist publisher. Part I is a first-hand report of working class
conditions in the northern England coal mining region of the 1930s; Part
II is a political memoir and a sympathetic yet scathing critique of the
British socialist movement.
[VG] $9.99 |
||||
= OFF-SITE LINK]
|
|
