Animal Farm – Burmese Days – A Clergyman’s Daughter – Coming Up For Air – Keep the Aspidistra Flying – Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

Secker & Warburg, Octopus Books, 1976, Complete and unabridged
ISBN 0905712048
Hardcover, dustjacket

Condition: Very good
a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners’ inscription marked out on half title page. (see photographs)

“George Orwell holds a unique place in English literature as a writer of documentary books, as an essayist and novelist.  Here are all his novels – including the famous titles known the world over to an ever-increasing public.  The tremendous power of these novels leaves a profound and disturbing impression on the reader, and their lasting quality derives, above all, from his ability to prophesy.  Viewing the world about him with harsh clarity and recording it with all the vigour of a brilliant journalist, he was able to do more than this, he could look forward with spine-chilling accuracy to the world which some would say surrounds us now.”