Lechlade Library

Tag: classics

  • 1984

    1984

    by George Orwell The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were newly created by George Orwell in 1949 as he conjured his dystopian vision…

  • The Jane Austen Collection – Emma, Pride & Prejudice, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Sense & Sensibility

    The Jane Austen Collection – Emma, Pride & Prejudice, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Sense & Sensibility

    Any book in the set can be taken out individually “Emma” by Jane Austen Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a ‘heroine whom no one but myself will much like’, but Emma is irresistible. ‘Handsome, clever, and rich’, Emma is also an ‘imaginist’, ‘on fire with speculation and foresight’. She sees the signs…