Modern Classics

[close] For people with varied reading tastes, who enjoy both classic and recently published books in a variety of genres.

[close] This is a space for literature that is intellectually demanding, emotionally unsettling, formally experimental, morally complicated, or historically significant.

[close] A niche for the readers of Eric Arthur Blair's writings, among the groups for literature and fiction lovers. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903–21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. Noted as a novelist and critic as well as a political and cultural commentator, Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the 20th century. He is best known for two novels critical of totalitarianism in general, and Stalinism in particular: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Both were written and published towards the end of his life.

[close] A group for anyone who wants to read and share their way through the Penguin Modern Classics collection of books.