'When I was about sixteen I suddenly discovered the joy of mere words'

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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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'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a...

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Confessions describes Saint...

The animals at Manor Farm have had enough of Farmer Jones - he's drunk, reckless and cares little for their welfare. When the...

When four young lovers flee from Athens and become lost in an enchanted wood, they stumble into a fairy world where King Oberon,...

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars...
First published in 1855, and edited, revised and...

Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the...

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...

In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War. In Homage to Catalonia, first published just before the...

Three francs will feed you till tomorrow, and you cannot think further than that...
As a young man struggling to find his voice...

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

Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work on...

Attributed to the blind Greek poet, Homer, The Odyssey is an epic tale about cunning and strength of mind. It takes its starting...

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'In fact, the fairies had turned him into a...

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not...

"I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more."

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"Vaguely she began to wonder … which of these worldly men round her was the mysterious 'Scarlet Pimpernel,' who held the threads...

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...

Welcome to Utopia.
When Mr. Barnstaple, an Earthling, is accidentally transported to Utopia with a group of others, he begins an...

Our life is what our thoughts make it
The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have...

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'I am the Ghost of Christmas Present,' said...

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Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of...

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'The rain pattered dismally against the...

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For a time I believed that mankind had...

Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of...