Can Socialists be Happy? by George Orwell - ISBN: 9780241746905
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Orwell’s timeless wisdom: happiness, politics, and life’s surprising perils.

Can Socialists be Happy?

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  • Paperback

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    15 July 2025

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Summary

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

“No thinking person can or does genuinely keep out of politics, in an age like the present one.”

Unfailingly wise and often startlingly prophetic, George Orwell’s essays are masterpieces of plain English prose. This stirring new collection brings together his most cherished pieces with lesser-known gems, ranging over everything from tree planting to living with the atom bomb, sleeping rough to the perils of getting what y…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241746905
ISBN-10:0241746906
Author:George Orwell
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:15 July 2025
Weight:96g
Dimensions:8mm x 110mm x 180mm
Series:Penguin Archive
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Can Socialists be Happy? by George Orwell - ISBN: 9780241746905
110 × 180 mm
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About The Author

George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.

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