Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.

Animal farm: a fairy story

George Orwell

Penguin

Nineteen eighty-four

Animal Farm: a fairy story

<p>Newspeak, Doublethink, Big Brother, the Thought Police - the language of 1984 has passed into the English Language as a symbol of the horrors of totalitarianism. George Orwell's story of Winston Smith's fight against the all-pervading party has become a classic, not the least because of its intellectual coherence.</p>

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Literature & Fiction

Orwell, George

Literary

Crusoe is the sole survivor of a shipwreck who finds himself alone on a desert island which with patience and ingenuity he trnasforms into a habitable paradise. For twenty four years he has no company until one Friday he rescues a prisoner from a boat of cannibals. A story of adventure and survival that has captivated readers for over 200 years.

Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Summer Classics)

Daniel, Defoe

Genre Fiction

Mastering the art of French cooking, 1

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Julia Child

Louisette Bertholle

Simone Beck

Regional & International

<p>Chaucer's bawdy, pious, erudite, absurd, tragic, comic collection. A modern English-language edition. With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crew of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life--from knight to nun, miller to monk--reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth century that is as robust as it is representative.</p>

The Canterbury Tales

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Poetry

In the travel-writing tradition that made Paul Theroux"s reputation, Dark Star Safari is a rich and insightful book whose itinerary is Africa, from Cairo to Cape Town: down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda, and ultimately to the tip of South Africa. Going by train, dugout canoe, "chicken bus," and cattle truck, Theroux passes through some of the most beautiful — and often life-threatening — landscapes on earth. This is travel as discovery and also, in part, a sentimental journey. Almost forty years ago, Theroux first went to Africa as a teacher in the Malawi bush. Now he stops at his old school, sees former students, revisits his African friends. He finds astonishing, devastating changes wherever he goes. "Africa is materially more decrepit than it was when I first knew it," he writes, "hungrier, poorer, less educated, more pessimistic, more corrupt, and you can"t tell the politicians from the witch doctors. Not that Africa is one place. It is an assortment of motley republics and seedy chiefdoms. I got sick, I got stranded, but I was never bored. In fact, my trip was a delight and a revelation." Seeing firsthand what is happening across Africa, Theroux is as obsessively curious and wittily observant as always, and his readers will find themselves on an epic and enlightening journey. Dark Star Safari is one of his bravest and best books.

Dark Star Safari

Travel

PAUL THEROUX

Africa

A New Earth - Awakening To Your Life's Purpose

TOLLE, ECKHART

History

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Health, Fitness & Dieting

Allen Carr

Addiction & Recovery

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