A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia. It is Orwell's most formally experimental novel, featuring a chapter written entirely in dramatic form, but he was never satisfied with it and he left instructions that after his death it was not to be reprinted. Despite these instructions, Orwell did consent that to cheap edit...

"That's the way we're going nowadays. Everything slick and streamlined, everything made out of something else."

"Sentimental, you say? Anti-social? Oughtn't to prefer trees to men? I say it depends what trees and what men."

― George Orwell, Coming Up for Air

Coming Up for Air is the seventh book by English writer George Orwell, published in June 1939 by Victor Gollancz. It was written between 1938 and 1939 while Orwell spent time recuperating from illness in French Morocco, mainly in Marrak...

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

― George Orwell, Animal Farm

Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be e...

"Beauty is meaningless until it is shared."

"It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life."

"it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it."

― George Orwell , Burmese Days

Burmese Days is the first novel by English writer George Orwell, published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of Empire, when Burma was ruled from Del...

"It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level."

"If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" – he tapped his forehead – "and you're all right."

"The stars are a free show; it don't cost anything to use your eyes."

― George Orwell, Down and Out in Pari...

"Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side."

"I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts."

― George Orwell, Looking Back on the Spanish War

First of all the physical memories,

The sounds, the smells and the surfaces of things.

It is curious that more vividly than anything that came afterwards in the Spanish war I remember the week of so-called training that we received before being sent to the front – the huge caval...

Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent ...

"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are."

"We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive."

"Here you come upon the important fact that every revolutionary opinion draws part of its strength from a secret conviction that nothing can be changed."

― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

The Road to Wig...

"The aspidistra is the tree of life, he thought suddenly."

"You're dishonoured, somehow. You've sinned. Sinned against the aspidistra."

"You talk a great deal about aspidistras," said Ravelston.

"They're a dashed important subject," said Gordon."

― George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the ...

Deals with the working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, the Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. This title includes descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, and more.