George Orwell

Dorothy, the heroine of this novel, performs good works, cultivates good thoughts, and pricks her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. She then has a series of unexpected and degrading adventures after becoming a victim of amnesia. Though she regains her life as a clergyman's daughter, she has lost her faith.

Overview: Homage to Catalonia is both a memoir of Orwell's experience at the front in the Spanish Civil War and a tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. Down and Out in Paris and London chronicles the adventures of a penniless British writer who finds himself rapidly descending into the seedy heart of two great European cities. This edition brings together two powerful works from one of the finest writers of the twentieth...

"Over the course of his career, George Orwell wrote about many things, but no matter what he wrote the goal was to get at the fundamental truths of the world. He had no place for dissemblers, liars, conmen, or frauds, and he made his feelings well-known. In Orwell on Truth, excerpts from across Orwell's career show how his writing and worldview developed over the decades, profoundly shaped by his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, and further by...

The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century-a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes "My Country Right or Left," "Decline of the English Murder," "Shooting an Elephant," and "A Hanging." With great originality and wit, Orwell unfolds...

George Orwells' Animal Farm is a 1945 book about a group of animals on a farm, who organize a revolution, and take over from their human owners to run the farm themselves. Adopting the Seven Commandments of Animalism, the animals are, taught to read and write by two young pigs, Snowball, and Napoleon. As time goes on, rivalry between the two develops, which culminates in Snowball being, chased away and Napoleon becoming supreme leader. Growing more...

El camino a Wigan Pier recoge una de las experiencias vitales más reveladoras para George Orwell, como individuo y como escritor. Este relato autobiográfico nace fruto del viaje que el autor británico hizo al norte de Inglaterra en 1936 –a las regiones de Lancashire y Yorkshire principalmente–, adentrándose en esta región minera, y anotando de forma científica y exhaustiva, las terribles consecuencias de la Gran Depresión de los años treinta...

Una prueba de que leer a Orwell es hoy más necesario que nunca Esta antología anfibia de ensayos demuestra que no hubo un tema que no tratara George Orwell con acierto, claridad y valentía. Revela una de sus facetas menos conocidas, la de crítico literario. Sus entrañables memorias como asistente de librería de lance conviven con sus irónicas reflexiones sobre la inflación novelística que padece la industria editorial, una discusión que,...

One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentieth century, George Orwell fought the injustices of his time with singular vigour through pen and paper. In this selection of essays, he ranges from reflections on his boyhood schooling and the profession of writing to his views on the Spanish Civil War and British imperialism. The pieces collected here include the relatively unfamiliar and the more celebrated, making it an ideal compilation...

A world where every human right has been violated and every notion of freedom and individuality is abolished. A world where Big Brother monitors everything through advanced technology devices. A world where the war against an invisible enemy never ends, thoughts go underground and any deviation from the dictates of the regime is punished relentlessly until it is "corrected". A world where those in power have the power to alter the past and deny the...

"La fattoria degli animali" (Animal Farm) è la grande allegoria socio-politica di George Orwell ambientata in una fattoria padronale inglese, dove gli animali decidono di fare la rivoluzione per liberarsi dalle catene dello sfruttamento a cui sono sottoposti da Mr. Jones e creare una società comunitaria in cui diritti e doveri siano equamente distribuiti e i bisogni primari soddisfatti per tutti, una sorta di comunismo utopistico da...