J., Taylor, D. – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Wed, 27 Nov 2024 11:37:03 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png J., Taylor, D. – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Orwell https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/orwell-3/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=39006 Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have together sold over 40 million copies. Even now, he continues to exert a decisive influence on our understanding of international power-politics.

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