The Road to Wigan Pier: (Penguin Modern Classics)

George Orwell has long been a popular author in the English language. Essentially a political writer at Tribune , his work was wide ranging and eclectic and his lucid style was highly effective. This collection provides an invaluable insight into the writings of, in the words of Bernard Crick, his biographer, 'the Doctor Johnson of the Left'.

A biography of George Orwell detailing so much more about him than simply his books.

George Orwell has become one of the most potent and symbolic figures in western political thought. Including interviews with friends and people who knew him in his years of obscurity, this book offers a human portrait of the writer too often embalmed as a secular saint.

The author argues that the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole-life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political conscience of great vitality.

Originally published in 1914, 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' is a timeless story of Socialism, political awakenings and class struggle, told with a volatile mix of heartfelt rage and sly humour.

First published in 1980, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his long and extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary, he has travelled like an explorer seeking out people and political situations at the dangerous edge of things. He writes about people and places, faith, doubt, fear and the trials and crafts of writing.

Reissue much in demand from both academics and general readers.

A collection of the author's peacetime dispatches, bearing witness to six decades of change. They include coverage of America in the Great Depression, the betrayal of Czechoslovakia, young Poles undaunted by their Communist government, the trial of Adolf Eichmann and Spain in the days after Franco.

The autobiography of literary figure Cyril Connolly, providing insight into his upper-class upbringing and life at Eton and Oxford, together with advice on how to avoid the pitfalls that await the would-be writer. First published in 1938.

Rissue of this bestselling classic. A compelling story that reflects the changing attitudes and styles of a generation that went to Cambridge in the fifties.