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This stirring new collection brings together George Orwell’s most cherished essays with lesser-known gems, all penned with the clarity, wit and charm which characterise his writing. Showcasing his vivid personal encounters and perceptive insights – from his musings on tree planting to his warnings against the threat of atomic destruction – this collection is sure to delight Orwell fans, both old and new.
‘Shooting an Elephant’ is Orwell’s searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd ‘solely to avoid looking a fool’.
This essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. In it, Orwell argues that when political discourse trades clarity and precision for stock phrases, the debasement of politics follows. First published in ‘Horizon’ in 1946, Orwell’s ideas continue to be relevant to our own age.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.When the animals overthrow the oppressive Mr. Jones, they think their problems are over, but in Orwell’s great indictment of the Russian Revolution, they find that power corrupts and they have merely swapped one form of tyranny for another.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. The classic story of a society that controls your every move and thought and a man, Winston, who comes to realise the oppression he is living under.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
Introduced by leading historian Helen Graham, Homage to Catalonia is Orwell’s first-hand account of the Spanish Civil War.
George Orwell’s famous account of his own experience living in poverty in Paris then London. With an introduction by Lara Feigel.
Presented in a beautiful collector’s edition, Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell’s profound dystopian novel about a surveillance state far ahead of its time, featuring an introduction by writer, journalist and Orwell scholar Dorian Lynskey.
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.
Celebrated for his novels and essays, George Orwell was a journalist first and is known as one of our very best commentators. Confronting social, political and moral dilemmas head-on, he was fearless in his writing, a champion of free speech, a defender against social injustice and a sharp-eyed chronicler of the age. This book tells his story.
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