75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION

"Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power."—The New Yorker

In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger

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A convivial gentleman, travels the countryside of Georgian England with a trio of jolly mates and his Cockney valet. Their encounters with highwaymen, romantic entanglements, and other comic misadventures offer rollicking entertainment.

While the totalitarianism that provoked George Orwell into writing 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' seems to be passing into oblivion, his harrowing, cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate, and its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade.

"A flamboyant and controversial personality of enormous wit and intelligence, Voltaire remains one of the most influential figures of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Candide, his masterpiece, is a brilliant satire of the theory that our world is "the best of all possible worlds." The book traces the picaresque adventures of the guileless Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved...

A vocabulary-building story about dogs engaged in every imaginable type of activity.

The title story is about a man whose sexual jealousy, inflamed by guilt, drives him to murder his wife.

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre...

Classic Bradbury, this collection of tales offers images that are as keen as a tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that stain the body. Featuring a new Introduction, "The Illustrated Man" presents 18 startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin.

ENGLISH LITERATURE: POETRY TEXTS & ANTHOLOGIES. This collection of six Beginner Books by Dr. Seuss costs less than two single Beginner Books! In one sturdy hardcover omnibus, "The Big Orange Book of Beginner Books" includes the complete text and illustrations for "The Shape of Me and Other Stuff, "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!, Ten Apples Up on Top!" (illustrated by Roy McKie), "In a People House "(illustrated by Roy McKie), "Hooper Humperdink...

A lonely firefly goes out into the night searching for other fireflies. Will the firefly ever find its friends?