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Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Harvest Book)
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"Orwell's brilliant prose and wit are displayed here, in a ironic tale of a poet who commits himself to poverty, and worries over his ablility to make his cigarettes last until next payday. He blames his lack of fortune on his lack of fame, but the truth is he just isn't very good as a poet. A satiric look at a self imposed starving artist railing at society."
1984 by George Orwell
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"Published in 1948 and set thirty-six years in the future, 1984 is George Orwell’s dark vision of the future. Written while Orwell was dying and based on the work of the Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin, it is a chilling depiction of how the power of the state could come to dominate the lives of individuals through cultural conditioning. Perhaps the most powerful science fiction novel of the twentie..."
