What do You think about George Orwell Omnibus: The Complete Novels: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up For Air, Keep The Aspidistra Flying, And Nineteen Eighty-Four (1983)?
Animal Farm - had never read it before. An interesting book considering the definition of allegorical.I loved re-reading Nineteen Eighty Four. It has been decades, but it never lost value. written in 1949, it's amazing in its vision. When I first read the book it was in the 70's. Now in 2013 it is amazing to look back on what the vision for the world was in 1949 and how much has actually come to fruition.The other books - not as outstanding as I had hoped for. Though some have given them rave reviews - I thought the reading was a bit tedious.
—Peg
I haven't read Orwell since 7th grade in Ms. Reid's class when we read "Animal Farm". This book is an undertaking, no doubt. It took over a month for me to finish it. Six of Orwell's works bundled together with "Animal Farm" and "1984" serving as bookends. I should say that either of these are my favorites but they're not. They're fluff compared to the nugget that is the "Clergyman's Daughter". The "Clergyman's Daughter" is a heartrending tale of a woman's abduction at the turn of the century. B
—Kewannah
Contains the complete novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Includes explanatory notes on the etymology of the language 'Newspeak'. Review 'Orwell described the compromised lives we recognize as our own' - Andrew Motion, Observer 'A writer who can -- and must -- be rediscovered with every age' Irish Times About the Author 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.
—Chris
