I sometimes fear we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs.
In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a...

If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coalminer.

In the mid-1930s, George Orwell was given an...

Three francs will feed you till tomorrow, and you cannot think further than that…

As a young man struggling to find his voice...

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If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coalminer.
In the mid-1930s, George Orwell was given an...

John Flory, a white timber merchant in 1920s Burma, has unorthodox views. To him, the Burmese culture and people should be...

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
Born into slavery during the early...

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From Collins Classics, short stories from the author of 'The Great Gatsby' and including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'....

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In l901, Conan Doyle finally bowed to public pressure and resurrected the nation's favourite detective. Featuring the last 12...

Originally serialized in the Strand Magazine, Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles follows the infamous Sherlock Holmes...

After taking an elixir created in his laboratory, mild mannered Dr Jekyll is transformed into the cruel and despicable Mr Hyde....