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.
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle.
In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flâneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past' that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time.
Gerald Durrell (1924-1995) consagró su vida a la investigación y a la protección de especies animales en peligro. En Alianza Editorial está publicada buena parte de su obra.
Izvestnyj anglijskij zoolog i pisatel Dzherald Darrell uvlekatelno s bolshim jumorom rasskazyvaet ob ekspeditsii za redkimi zhivotnymi Zapadnuju Afriku i Juzhnuju Ameriku.