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 - Couverture souple

Orwell, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141190396 ISBN 13 : 9780141190396

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2009

Synopsis

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 Includes novels that are concerned with individuals at odds with repressive institutions. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

His best-known novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, are two of the most famous, well-quoted and influential political satires ever written. The other novels in this volume are also concerned with individuals at odds with repressive institutions: the corrupt imperialism of Burmese Days, disaffection with materialistic society in Keep the Aspidistra Flying, the perils of modern suburban living in Coming Up for Air and the down-and-out girls in A Clergyman's Daughter. They all display Orwell's deep understanding of human nature, his biting humour and great compassion.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in India in 1903. He was educated at Eton, served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, and worked in Britain as a private tutor, schoolteacher, bookshop assistant and journalist. In 1936, Orwell went to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded. In 1938 he was admitted into a sanatorium and from then on was never fully fit. George Orwell died in London in 1950.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141190396
• ISBN 13: 9780141190396
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 1200