Orwell, GeorgeBiblio.com
Orwell, GeorgeBiblio.com
The Novels of George Orwell: Including Burmese Days; A Clergyman’s Daughter; Animal Farm; Nineteen Eighty-Four; Coming Up For Air; Keeping the Aspidistra Flying.
1934147631London: Various Publishers 1934-56. First editions of the novels of George Orwell. Octavo 6 volumes bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery marbled endpapers all edges gilt. An exceptional set rare and desirable. George Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm 1945 and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949. Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture and the adjective "Orwellian"—describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices—is part of the English language like many of his neologisms such as "Big Brother" "Thought Police" "Room 101" "Newspeak" "memory hole" "doublethink" and "thoughtcrime". In 2008 The Times named Orwell the second-greatest British writer since 1945. Various Publishers unknown
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