1984 and The Road to Wigan Pier Combo Set of 2 Books

This combo product is bundled in India but the publishing origin of this title may vary.Publication date of this bundle is the creation date of this bundle; the actual publication date of child items may vary.George Orwell is one of the world’s most influential writers the visionary author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four and non-fiction classics Down and Out in Paris in London The Road toWigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.George Orwell was born Eric Blair in India in 1903 into a comfortable‘lower-upper-middle class’ family. Orwell’s father had served the British Empire and Orwell’s own first job was as a policeman in Burma. Orwell wrote in “Shooting an Elephant” (1936) that his time in the police force had shown him the “dirty work of Empire at close quarters”; the experience made him a lifelong foe of imperialism.By the time of his death in 1950 he was world-renowned as a journalist and author: for his eyewitness reporting on war (shot in the neck in Spain) and poverty (tramping in London washing dishes in Paris or visiting pits and the poor in Wigan); for his political and cultural commentary where he stood up to power and said the unsayable (‘If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear’); and for his fiction including two of the most popular novels ever written: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.“Big Brother is Watching You.”“Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”“If you want a picture of the future imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”? George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-FourNineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (1949) a dystopian novel by George Orwell is a brilliant work of fiction exposing totalitarianism. The protagonist Winston Smith is a minor party functionary living in London which is shattered by a nuclear war right after World War II. Working as a rewriter of history in the Ministry of Truth his work is to rewrite history by bringing it in line with current political thinking. However Winston’s longing for truth and decency directs him to secretly rebel against the government. He embarks on a prohibited affair with Julia a woman with the same mindset and they rent a room in a region populated by proletariats. Winston and Julia however are unknowingly being watched closely by “Big Brother”.