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American Massacre
Sally Denton

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 2003

52 reviews
James A. Michener

Secker & Warburg, 1974

Centennial and Colorado
When I read this book, I determined I would someday live in Colorado. It was that good. I read the book over 25 years ago and I will pick it up every once in a while and read parts of it or the whole thing. Warning, it is very long, but well worth the investment of time. There is a particularly great part at the end that has always stuck with me about the wilderness and natural parts of ...

Divine Magnetic Lands: A Journey in America
Timothy E. O'Grady

Secker & Warburg, 2006

Using history, memoir, state-of-the-nation analysis and a novelist´s skill at evoking places and people, Divine Magnetic Lands presents a picture of America as it evolved and how it is at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Facing Unpleasant Facts: 1937-1939 (Complete Orwell)
George Orwell

Secker & Warburg, 1999

These years saw the publication of The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia, and Coming Up for Air. This collection features essays, documents, and letters, including correspondence with Yvonne Davet, who undertook the translation of Orwell's books into French; George Kopp, Orwell's commandent in Spain; and his wife Eileen. Orwell's Diary of Events Leading Up to the War, his Domestic Diary, his abstracts from Daily Worker and News ...

Keeping Our Little Corner Clean: 1942-1943 (Complete Orwell)
George Orwell

Secker & Warburg, 2001

During this period, in addition to the magazine program, Voice, Orwell continued to develop what would now be called an "open university"—broadcasts by distinguished speakers on texts set for Bombay and Calcutta university degrees. He enlisted such speakers as E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot, and Joseph Needham, and the broadcasts were backed up by publications printed in India for university students. Some of Orwell's scripts, such as that for ...

The Source

140 reviews
James A. Michener

Secker & Warburg, 1965

Best book ever
I absolutely loved this book. I learned so much about humankind and the history of religion. The stories enterwined made the books so readable. Great writing. I appreciate Michener more and more as I get older.

Chesapeake

53 reviews
James A. Michener

Secker & Warburg, 1978

Can we learn from history?
A phenomenal masterpiece; Michener takes the reader to multiple continents through many centuries following people and animals in the history of the Chesapeake region. Some fine reviews above describe many of the topics in the book, but the chapters on slavery were most moving and eye-opening. Michener decribes the horror of the Africans being betrayed and captured in their villages, the brutal ...

Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

108 reviews
Sherman Alexie

Secker & Warburg, 1994

That's How I Do Life Sometimes By Making The Ordinary Just Like Magic... -Sherman Alexie
Halfway through this book I emailed the friend that bought it for me to tell him how much I was loving it. I then asked him "How the hell am I supposed to review this?" His reply was to explain that "He needs a new star, a category for 'Holy Sh!t, that one hit me hard.' But they don't make the Holy Sh!t category on Amazon." That pretty much says it all. The truth is I was blown away by ...

I Belong to the Left: 1945 (Complete Orwell)
George Orwell

Secker & Warburg, 2001

On March 29, 1945 Orwell's wife Eileen died at age 39, and her last moving letters to her husband are printed here. Less than six months later, the novel that she might be said to have nurtured and which gave Orwell world-wide fame, Animal Farm, was published. "Politics and the English Language," one of Orwell's most important essays, was immediately reprinted for journalists of The Observer and News of the World as a guide to good ...

It is What I Think: 1947-1948 (Complete Orwell)
George Orwell

Secker & Warburg, 2002

Much of 1947 and 1948 was taken up with Orwell's struggle to complete 1984 and his fight against illness. He was admitted to the hospital and continued to work on "Such, Such Were the Joys," he wrote several essays, and he continued to review. Changes made in the course of the production of Orwell's radio version of Animal Farm are listed, and his second Literary Notebook is reproduced.

A Kind of Compulsion: 1903-1936 (Complete Orwell)
George Orwell

Secker & Warburg, 2000

This collection includes letters, articles, and essays beginning with Orwell's letters home from prep school, and the stories, poems, and contributions to college publications he wrote at Eton.

I Have Tried to Tell the Truth: 1943-1944 (Complete Orwell)
George Orwell

Secker & Warburg, 2001

Orwell reviewed 86 books as Literary Editor of Tribune in addition to his "As I Please" column, printed without cuts in this edition. Also included are literary essays, The English People, four London Letters, and Can Socialists Be Happy?, written under the pseudonym John Freeman.

A Clergyman's Daughter (The Complete Works of George Orwell)

14 reviews
George Orwell

Secker & Warburg, 1986

Story by Dickens, script by Joyce, philosophy by Camus
Some say, this is the weekest of Orwell's 6 novels. I am not so sure. But even if it is, it is still so much more interesting than most other writers' 'good' novels. If it is a bad novel, it is still a very good book. Sure, the text is uneven. The chapters talk a different language. So? Chapter 1 is a 'plain' tale of a young woman in Suffolk, a spinsterish, neurotic, sex-phobic, obedient, ...

Deep Green Sea

16 reviews
Robert Olen Butler

Secker & Warburg, 1999

haunting and lyrical
I was immediately pulled into this novel by the short chapters and the earnest voices of the two characters. Ben is a Vietnam War veteran, returning to that country after its inevitable "fall" to communism in order to search his soul and perhaps find some closure. Tien is a young Vietnamese woman to whom Ben is immediately drawn, and has some healing of her own to do. The two begin a very ...

All Propaganda is Lies: 1941-1942 (Complete Orwell)
George Orwell

Secker & Warburg, 2001

On August 18, 1941, George Orwell joined the BBC's Overseas Service. After a crash training course, he was appointed a Talks Producer responsible for features, talks, and commentaries on the war, to be broadcast to India. He wrote at least 220 news commentaries broadcast to India, Malaya, and Indonesia, of which Orwell read 56. This volume shows that formal censorship was not as great a problem as has been supposed—although it obviously ...

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