Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays

George Orwell

“Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays“ is a book by George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. “Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays“ is a collection of 9 essays and a number of articles written by George Orwell. The collection consists of these titles: Shooting an Elephant, A Hanging, How the Poor Die, Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool, Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels, Politics and the English Language, Reflections on Gandhi, The Prevention of Literature, Second Thoughts on James Burnham, “I Write as I Please"

The Complete Novels. MultiBook

George Orwell

George Orwell is one of the most widely read authors in the world and a very controversial person. His first international fame came from traditional psychological novels. This collection includes all of Orwells novels. His name was immortalized by the anti-utopias 1984 and Animal Farm, which became the first anti-utopias of the twentieth century and laid the foundation for a whole trend in literature.

The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell

“The Road to Wigan Pier“ is a book by George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.   The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the English writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions among the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II. The second half is a long essay on his middle-class upbringing, and the development of his political conscience, questioning British attitudes towards socialism.  

The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell

In the 1930s, George Orwell was sent by a socialist book club to investigate the appalling mass unemployment in the industrial north of England. Orwell went further than just studying unemployment not wanting to watch from the outside, he learned what it is: to be a miner, live in slums, eat poorly and do backbreaking work in the mines. Everything he saw and wrote down helped him to clarify his feelings towards socialism. In this book, he explains why socialism, the only possible escape from the shocking conditions of life that he saw, turns off so many normal, respectable citizens.