Designed to support teaching of Animal Farm for GCSE English Literature exam, this book provides an overview of the text with plot and characters delineated. It focuses on plot, characterisation, theme, language and structure as specified in Assessment Objectives.

Created and edited by Justin Kestler and Ben Florman, SparkNotes Literature Guides provide analysis of (currently) 175 classic works of English and foreign language literature - novels, biographies, plays and poetry - that most commonly appear on examination syllabuses. These books provide the insights that today's students need to know.

Presents an account of the author's experience as a police officer in imperial Burma. This collection features the essays that include classics such as My Country Right or Left , How the Poor Die and Such, Such were the Joys , his memoir of the horrors of public school, as well as discussions of Shakespeare, sleeping rough, and boys' weeklies.

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play. Suddenly her routine shatters and Dorothy finds herself down and out in London.

A simple but powerful dramatization of Orwell's famous satire on the perils of Stalinism. It closely follows the book and retains both its affection for the animals, and the incisiveness of the message.

Contains essays that demonstrates how intent analysis of a work or a body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary. This title features Politics and the English Language and Rudyard Kipling and Good Bad Books .

This title is the paperback edition of Volume 19 of The Complete Works of George Orwell . Works included are: changes made in the course of the production of Orwell's radio version of Animal Farm ; his second Literary Notebook; and his third series of notes for his literary executor.

Including Homage to Catalonia , Orwell's profound experience of fighting in the Spanish Civil War, this title also contains Orwell's essays, letters and pamphlets, which show his resolution to tell the truth about the war amid a crop of lies from both the Communist Party and the British Press.

Combining reporting of the very highest order with profiles, analysis and book reviews, this complete collection is an important addition to the library of any admirer of Orwell.

George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist. From his earliest published article in 1928 to his untimely death in 1950, he produced an extraordinary array of short non-fiction that reflected - and illuminated - the fraught times in which he lived and wrote. This book charts Orwell's development as a master of the narrative-essay form.

Includes the text of The Road to Wigan Pier - a documentary of unemployment and proletarian life - as well as the author's writing on the political and social condition of England.

A treasure trove of letters and documents

Brings together the author's other works exploring the nature of politics and the Second World War.

Spanning a period of 20 months, this volume is part of The Complete Works of George Orwell , available as a separate book. It includes essays, film, book and theatre reviews and the transcripts of a series of broadcasts on literary criticism.

Volume 3 As I Please. An astonishing collection of essays, letters, and journalism from George Orwell that showcase his amazing gifts as a natural, unaffected writer.

Combining reporting of the very highest order with profiles, analysis and book reviews, this complete collection is an important addition to the library of any admirer of Orwell.