George OrwellClassic 2 Book Bundle
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About
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) which we have put together specifically for this deal.
Animal Farm
In Animal Farm, George Orwell crafts a fictional story about an animal rebellion gone awry to critique the real-life events that followed the Russian Revolution of 1917. Mr. Jones, the owner of Manor Farm, is a mean, heartless man who butchers the pigs and drowns dogs when they get too old. One day, a prize-winning boar named Old Major encourages the farm animals to rebel against the humans.
Old Major dies just three days after proposing the rebellion. Three young pigs (Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer) lead the resistance. When Mr. Jones gets drunk one night, the animals drive him and his men off the farm, which they rename Animal Farm. Together, the pigs write the Seven Commandments of Animalism, the new political philosophy that declares all animals equal. Under the pigs' leadership, the farm animals work hard to bring in the harvest and build an idyllic society. Snowball and Napoleon fight for control of Animal Farm. Napoleon uses specially trained dogs to run Snowball off the farm. Napoleon then makes false promises of comfort and prosperity to the other animals. Life gets worse on the farm, and the pigs assume the role that Mr. Jones and the humans once held.
1984
Big Brother is a fictional character and symbol in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is ostensibly the leader of Oceania, a totalitarian state wherein the ruling party, ‘Ingsoc’ wields total power "for its own sake" over the inhabitants. In the society that Orwell describes, every citizen is under constant surveillance by the authorities, mainly by telescreens (except for the Proles). The people are constantly reminded of this by the slogan "Big Brother is watching you": a maxim that is ubiquitously on display…
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