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1984 - George Orwell

“ The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ” The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell 's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "negative utopia" -a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny the novel's hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions -a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time. Download Here !  

An Unsocial Socialist - George Bernard Shaw

This reissue makes available one of the early works of George Bernard Shaw : a galloping, witty novel with a wealth of pertinent things to say about the creaking class system and men’s and women’s attempts to find a human and interesting way to live together. The book was written in 1883 and later revised by Shaw for inclusion in the 1932 Standard Edition, from which the present text is taken. From 1879 to 1883, before he turned to writing plays, Shaw wrote five novels. An Unsocial Socialist , the last written, concerns the activities of one Sidney Trefusis, a rich Marxist whom women find completely exasperating, or irresistible, or both, and who has definite ideas about reforming personal and political relationships. Shaw develops a plot that overturns the pieties of the middle class―including the expectations of the novel-reader―and in so doing suggests some new structures for both society and literature. Download Here !