{"product_id":"george-orwell-9-volume-paperback-boxset","title":"George Orwell (9 Volume Paperback Boxset)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis box set includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1) \u003cb\u003eBurmese Days\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSet in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in\nBurma, Orwell's book describes corruption and imperial bigotry. Flory, a white\ntimber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for the Empire,\nwhose downfall can only be prevented by membership at an all-white club.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e2) \u003cb\u003eA Clergyman's Daughter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIntimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy\nperforms her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper.\nHer thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school\nplay, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay\nin 1930’s Depression England. Suddenly her routine shatters and Dorothy finds\nherself down and out in London. She is wearing silk stockings, has money in her\npocket and cannot remember her name. Orwell leads us through a landscape of\nunemployment, poverty and hunger, where Dorothy's faith is challenged by a\nsocial reality that changes her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e3) \u003cb\u003eKeep the Aspidistra Flying\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell has created a\ndarkly compassionate satire to which anyone who has ever been oppressed by the\nlack of brass, or by the need to make it, will all too easily relate. He etches\nthe ugly insanity of what Gordon calls \"the money-world\" in\nunflinching detail, but the satire has a second edge, too, and Gordon himself\nis scarcely heroic. In the course of his misadventures, we become grindingly\naware that his radical solution to the problem of the money-world is no solution\nat all--that in his desperate reaction against a monstrous system, he has\nbecome something of a monster himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e4) \u003cb\u003eComing Up for Air\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eGeorge Bowling, the hero of Orwell's comic novel, is a\nmiddle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row\nhouse with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a\nbet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool\nhe remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has\nchanged beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an\naccidental bombing by the RAF.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e5) \u003cb\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals.\nWith flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise\nof progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most\ntelling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that\nrecords the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just\nas terrible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e6) \u003cb\u003e1984\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe new novel by George Orwell is the major work towards\nwhich all his previous writing has pointed. Critics have hailed it as his\n\"most solid, most brilliant\" work. Though the story of Nineteen\nEighty-Four takes place thirty-five years hence, it is in every sense timely.\nThe scene is London, where there has been no new housing since 1950 and where\nthe city-wide slums are called Victory Mansions. Science has abandoned Man for\nthe State. As every citizen knows only too well, war is peace. To Winston\nSmith, a young man who works in the Ministry of Truth (Minitru for short), come\ntwo people who transform this life completely. One is Julia, whom he meets\nafter she hands him a slip reading, \"I love you.\" The other is\nO'Brien, who tells him, \"We shall meet in the place where there is no\ndarkness.\" The way in which Winston is betrayed by the one and, against\nhis own desires and instincts, ultimately betrays the other, makes a story of\nmounting drama and suspense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e7) \u003cb\u003eDown and Out in Paris and London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis unusual fictional memoir - in good part\nautobiographical - narrates without self-pity and often with humour the\nadventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-outs of two great\ncities. The Parisian episode is fascinating for its expose of the kitchens of\nposh French restaurants, where the narrator works at the bottom of the culinary\nechelon as dishwasher, or plongeur. In London, while waiting for a job, he\nexperiences the world of tramps, street people, and free lodging houses. In the\ntales of both cities we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and\nof society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e8) \u003cb\u003eThe Road to Wigan Pier\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA searing account of George Orwell’s experiences of\nworking-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and\nLancashire, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has\nlost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable\ndescriptions of social injustice, slum housing, mining conditions, squalor,\nhunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and\ngreat humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e9) \u003cb\u003eHomage to Catalonia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn 1936 George Orwell travelled to Spain to report on the\nCivil War and instead joined the fight against the Fascists. This famous\naccount describes the war and Orwell’s own experiences. Introduction by Lionel\nTrilling.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WILCO INTERNATIONAL LLP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44885022900431,"sku":"9788119172450","price":80.64,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_3cfb6e8f-e648-4f08-a512-84916e1e48be.webp?v=1772592288","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/george-orwell-9-volume-paperback-boxset","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}