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George Orwell Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 833 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,352,066 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 777 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,458,488 ratings — published 1945
Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.09 — 99,655 ratings — published 1933
Homage to Catalonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.09 — 70,015 ratings — published 1938
Burmese Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.87 — 31,919 ratings — published 1934
Coming up for Air (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.78 — 21,154 ratings — published 1939
The Road to Wigan Pier (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.91 — 27,978 ratings — published 1937
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.89 — 24,905 ratings — published 1936
A Clergyman's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.54 — 11,560 ratings — published 1935
Why I Write (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,800 ratings — published 1946
Books v. Cigarettes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.83 — 8,610 ratings — published 1946
Shooting an Elephant (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,860 ratings — published 1936
A Collection of Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,038 ratings — published 1941
Animal Farm / 1984 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.30 — 213,971 ratings — published 1949
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,400 ratings — published 1941
Inside the Whale and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,736 ratings — published 1932
Politics and the English Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,573 ratings — published 1946
Notes on Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,730 ratings — published 2012
Decline of the English Murder (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,412 ratings — published 1946
George Orwell Diaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.80 — 596 ratings — published 2009
All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,435 ratings — published 1941
Orwell on Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,388 ratings — published 2017
Such, Such Were the Joys (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,029 ratings — published 1952
Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.32 — 912 ratings — published 1999
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.90 — 736 ratings — published 1947
Finding George Orwell in Burma (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,698 ratings — published 2004
Fascism and Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,791 ratings — published
Why Orwell Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,153 ratings — published 2002
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 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,327 ratings — published 1949
My Country Right or Left: 1940-1943 (The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Vol. 2)
by (shelved 6 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.25 — 679 ratings — published 1968
George Orwell: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.06 — 421 ratings — published 1980
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.41 — 36,208 ratings — published 1949
Orwell's Roses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,608 ratings — published 2021
George Orwell: The Authorised Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.18 — 296 ratings — published 1991
An Age Like This: 1920-1940 (The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Vol. 1)
by (shelved 5 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.32 — 409 ratings — published 1968
1984: An Audible Original adaptation (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 4 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.24 — 7,072 ratings — published 2024
Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.51 — 760 ratings — published 1968
England Your England (Nook)
by (shelved 4 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,001 ratings — published 1941
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,378 ratings — published 2019
A Life in Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.20 — 154 ratings — published 2010
Orwell: The Observer Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.75 — 65 ratings — published 1949
The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.72 — 39 ratings — published 1966
In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950 (The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Vol. 4)
by (shelved 4 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.42 — 349 ratings — published 1968
Can Socialists be Happy? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.22 — 325 ratings — published 2012
The Orwell Tour, Travels Through The Life And Work Of George Orwell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.79 — 67 ratings — published
The Complete Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.12 — 172 ratings — published 2015
The Last Man in Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.89 — 721 ratings — published 2017
Seeing Things As They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 4.19 — 116 ratings — published 2014
The English People (Library Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as george-orwell)
avg rating 3.80 — 66 ratings — published 1947
“I fear no hell, just as I expect no heaven. Nabokov summed up a nonbeliever’s view of the cosmos, and our place in it, thus: “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” The 19th-century Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle put it slightly differently: “One life. A little gleam of Time between two Eternities.” Though I have many memories to cherish, I value the present, my time on earth, those around me now. I miss those who have departed, and recognize, painful as it is, that I will never be reunited with them. There is the here and now – no more. But certainly no less. Being an adult means, as Orwell put it, having the “power of facing unpleasant facts.” True adulthood begins with doing just that, with renouncing comforting fables. There is something liberating in recognizing ourselves as mammals with some fourscore years (if we’re lucky) to make the most of on this earth.
There is also something intrinsically courageous about being an atheist. Atheists confront death without mythology or sugarcoating. That takes courage.”
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There is also something intrinsically courageous about being an atheist. Atheists confront death without mythology or sugarcoating. That takes courage.”
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“I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that George Orwell, in his second novel,
A Clergyman's Daughter
, published in 1935, had borrowed from Joyce for his nighttime scene in Trafalgar Square, where Deafie and Charlie and Snouter and Mr. Tallboys and The Kike and Mrs. Bendigo and the rest of the bums and losers keep up a barrage of song snatches, fractured prayers, curses, and crackpot reminiscences. But only on my most recent reading of
Ulysses
did I discover, in the middle of the long and intricate mock-Shakespeare scene at the National Library, the line 'Go to! You spent most of it in Georgina Johnson's bed, clergyman's daughter.' So now I think Orwell quarried his title from there, too.”
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
― Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
