George Orwell

Orwell's classic novel of one man's nightmare odyssey through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information but individual thought and memory.

PERO ALGUNOS ANIMALES SON MÁS IGUALES QUE OTROS». Cuando los maltratados animales de la Granja Señorial se rebelan contra su amo, el señor Jones, y toman el control de la granja, empiezan a creer con fervor en una vida de libertad e igualdad para todos. Sin embargo, poco a poco, el egocéntrico y despiadado Napoleón toma el control y los animales se ven sometidos a la opresión y la violencia de una élite corrupta: los cerdos. A medida que un...

Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, "Burmese Days" describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a 'subject' people, an inferior people with black faces'. Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for Empire. The doctor needs help. U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate...

A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia.

"Keep the Aspidistra Flying", first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results.

Coming Up for Air is a novel by George Orwell, first published in June 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. It combines premonitions of the impending war with images of an idyllic Thames-side Edwardian era childhood. The novel is pessimistic, with its view that speculative builders, commercialism and capitalism are killing the best of rural England, "everything cemented over", and there are great new external threats.

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...

Na Fazenda do Solar, o porco Maioral tem um sonho e incita todos os outros animais a se rebelarem contra o jugo humano. À morte deste, Bola de Neve e Napoleão, porcos mais jovens, apropriam-se do seu legado e comandam uma revolta que resulta na expulsão do dono, o sr. Jones. A propriedade é rebatizada de Fazenda dos Animais e lá passa-se a promover a doutrina do Animalismo, segundo a qual "todos os animais são iguais" e humanos não merecem...

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...