George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society.
Auf der Herren-Farm von Mr. Jones planen die Tiere einen Aufstand gegen ihren Besitzer. Die Idee der Revolution hegt ein alter Keiler namens Old Major, der den Ausbeuter Mensch vertreiben und den Tieren die Produkte ihrer Arbeit zukommen lassen will.
'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'.
Sin duda uno de los libros más importantes del siglo XX. Una obra clave sobre la guerra civil espanola por uno de los principales escritores de la época y testigo del episodio.
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his...
Tutti gli animali sono uguali, ma alcuni animali sono piu uguali degli altri. Stanchi dei soprusi, gli animali di una fattoria decidono di ribellarsi agli umani e, cacciato il proprietario, danno vita a un nuovo ordine fondato sull'uguaglianza.
Un jour de juin eut lieu en Angleterre la révolte des animaux. Les cochons dirigent le nouveau régime. Boule-de-Neige et Napoléon, cochons en chef, affichent un reglement : "Tout ce qui marche sur deux pieds est un ennemi."
George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century, making famous Big Brother, newspeak and Room 101.
George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century, making famous Big Brother, newspeak and Room 101.
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published in 1949 as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime.
In "Nineteen eighty-four", one of the 20th century's great myth-makers takes a cold look at the future. Orwell's study of individual struggling - or not struggling - against totalitarianism remains a salutary lesson in any society.
A special student edition of Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, with an introduction and study notesWinston Smith lives in a world that controls every action and thought of its citizens through the all-seeing eye of Big Brother.
Much of George Orwell's best writing, brought together in this magnificient new collection, is concerned with England, a country that he found both endearing and frustrating.
Today, George Orwell is perhaps most famous for his iconic novels - Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm - but in his own time it was his remarkable nonfiction writing which drew most attention.