George Orwell’s towering classics, now in a two-book trade paperback boxed set Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece classics have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh. The 75th Anniversary Edition of Orwell’s chilling dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative THIS EDITION INCLUDES AN INTRODUCTION BY DOLEN PERKINS-VALDEZ, A FOREWORD BY THOMAS PYNCHON, AN AFTERWORD BY SANDRA NEWMAN, AND AN AFTERWORD BY ERICH FROMM The 75th Anniversary Edition of Orwell’s timeless and timely allegory--a scathing satire of a downtrodden society’s blind march toward totalitarianism THIS EDITION INCLUDES A FOREWORD BY ANN PATCHETT, AN INTRODUCTION BY TÉA OBREHT, AND AN AFTERWORD BY RUSSELL BAKER

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George Orwell (pseudonym for Eric Blair [1903–50]) served with the Imperial Police in Burma, fought with the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, and was a member of the Home Guard and a writer for the BBC during World War II. He is the author of many works of nonfiction and fiction.