George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century making famous Big Brother newspeak & Room 101. ' Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in which demands absolute obedience & controls him through the all-seeing telescreens & the watchful eye of Big Brother symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth & liberty Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal. Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950) better known by his pen-name George Orwell was born in India where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author & journalist Orwell was one of the most prominent & influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945 & it was this novel together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) which brought him world-wide fame. All his novels & non-fiction including Burmese Days (1934) Down & Out in Paris & London (1933) The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) & Homage to Catalonia (1938) are published in Penguin Modern Classics. If you enjoyed Nineteen Eighty-Four you might like Orwell's Animal Farm also available in Penguin Great Orwell. His final masterpiece.. .enthralling & indispensible for understanding modern history". (Timothy Garton-Ash New York Review of Books). " The book of the twentieth century.. .haunts us with an ever-darker relevance". (Independent)." ...

This is the essential edition of the essential book of modern times 1984" now annotated for students with an introduction by D. J. Taylor. Ever since its publication in 1949 George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian regime where Big Brother controls its citizens like 'a boot stamping on a human face' has become a touchstone for human freedom & one of the most widely-read books in the world. In this new annotated edition Orwell's biographer D. J. Taylor elucidates the full meaning of this timeless satire explaining contemporary references in the novel placing it in the context of Orwell's life elaborating on his extraordinary use of language & explaining the terms such as Newspeak Doublethink & Room 101 that have become familiar phrases today." ...

Sterling is a small ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens
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Most undergraduate literature courses begin with a compulsory survey course on the novel. The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader fills a real gap in the market as no other book provides such a comprehensive selection of contemporary & modern essays & reviews on the most important novels of the period. By bringing together a range of material written across two centuries it offers an insight into the changing reception of realist fiction & a discussion of how complex debates about the meaning & function of realism informed & shaped the kind of fiction that was written in the nineteenth century. The novels discussed are: Northanger Abbey Jane Eyre Dombey & Son Middlemarch Far From the Madding Crowd Germinal Madame Bovary The Woman in White The Portrait of a Lady The Awakening Dracula Heart of Darkness. ...

The Ninjas today are the stuff of myth & legend in comics film & electronic games. But once they were real the medieval equivalent of the SAS: spies saboteurs assassins. In their secrecy undercover skills & determination to survive they were the opposite of the overt self-destructive samurai. Could they fly? Make themselves invisible? Of course not. It was just that their skills gave them a magical aura. As a result martial artists & story-tellers have turned them into fantasy creatures from James Bond to Mutant Turtles. In Ninja John Man goes in search of the truth. In a journey to the heartland of the ninjas he takes us from their origins over 1 000 years ago through their heyday in the civil wars that ended with Japans unification in 1600. But that was not the end of the ninja ethos. That re-emerged in World War Two as a little-known counterpart to Japanese militarism. Ninja ways live on in the real last of the ninjas Hiroo Onoda who held out in the Philippine jungle for 30 years. From feudal Japan to 21st Century Hollywood John Mans epic story reveals the reality behind one of the worlds most enduring legends. ...

If middle school sucked for Vladimir Tod high school is a real drain. Besides being a punch bag for bullies hes still going nowhere fast with dream girl Meredith. Needless to say practicing his vampire skills hasnt exactly been a priority for Vlad
- until now. A monumental trip to Siberia with Uncle Otis training alongside the most gifted vampires is exactly what Vlad needs. & hed better get it right because the battle brewing back home with the vampire whos been stalking him.. .could be Vlads last.
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Its a game of hide & seek & Dad the crab is looking for Tim but he cant find him anywhere. As he hunts around the seabed he finds lots of other crabs in different hiding places but will he ever find Tim? Written & illustrated by Shoo Rayner this is a fun story with lively colourful artwork. * Pink/1A
- a simple story with a familiar setting * Text type
- Fiction * The focus phonemes in this book are s a t i p n m d * A picture of the seabed on pages 14-15 shows all the crabs & their hiding places to help children recap the story

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Though Nevermind" was Nirvanas most commercially successful album & the record that broke them
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Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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Winnie the Witch does things differently! In Winnies Wet Weekend Winnie & Wilbur escape to the seaside where Winnie discovers the perils of living in a sandcastle; in Jurassic Winnie a quest for a cereal packet collectors card sends Winnie & Wilbur back to the time of the dinosaurs; in A Wedding for Winnie the preparations for her sister Wendys wedding take a crazy turn when Winnie is put in charge; & in Nitty Winnie find out what happens when Winnies head is invaded by some tiny uninvited guests! Four crazily funny stories featuring everyones favourite witch her big black cat Wilbur & a zany supporting cast of new characters. Korky Pauls exuberant black line illustrations complement the humour slapstick & moments of real drama that run through each story. Pure magic! ...