This new collection brings together four of Orwells short sketches of English life with his masterful analysis of a crumbling English society. They range from an expedition down a coal mine to a chastening experience of colonial rule in Burma, and from a witty study of murder reportage in the British tabloids to a grim account of life inside a workhouse. Culminating with Orwells masterpiece on English socialism, The Lion and the Unicorn, the essays in this collection are a testament to the fascinating peculiarities of English culture. Together, they say as much about what England could aspire to be as the state that it has found itself in.
Four of George Orwell''s most essential books, 1984, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London and Homage to Catalonia available for the first time in Vintage Classics with a stunning and unexpected new cover look"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. "This the famous and iconic fable of revolutionary farm animals who overthrow their elitist human master only to find themselves subject to a new authority. Determined and steadfast horses Boxer and Clover, the opportunistic pigs Snowball and Napoleon, and the deafening choir of sheep are imagined as only Orwell could with power, humour and an underlying urgency that makes this one of the most prescient warnings ever written.
"You can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how. But it is a complicated business."As a struggling writer in his twenties, Orwell lived as a down-and-out among the poorest members of society. In this, his early memoir, Orwell recalls with vivid clarity his time working as a penniless dishwasher in Paris, pawning clothes to buy a days worth of bread and wine, sleeping in bug-infested bunks, trading survival skills and cigarette butts with fellow tramps, and trudging between Londons workhouse spikes for a few hours sleep and tea. With all of the sensitivity and compassion that Orwell is known and loved for, he exposed the hardships of poverty and gave readers an unprecedented look at life lived on the fringes of society.This vivid account is an enduring call to support the worlds most vulnerable people and exemplifies his belief that The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
Unfailingly elegant and endlessly relevant, the four essays in this collection treat literature as a vital record of our political hypocrisies, our social failings, and the ennobling limits of our ideological aspirations. Delving into the literary canon, George Orwell encounters dusty classics and lesser-known works of literature on his own exhilarating terms. The novels of Henry Miller lead him inside the belly of Jonahs whale, an imagined refuge in a time of total war. A trenchant investigation of Charles Dickens unfolds into a poignant portrait of nineteenth-century liberalism. A minor pamphlet on Shakespeare by Tolstoy provokes a stirring evocation of humanism and the excessive vitality of life. A series of singularly thrilling reading experiences, they celebrate Orwells engagement with the world of writers and literature.
Questo testo e il primo romanzo scritto da Orwell. Protagonista e il trentacinquenne John Flory, mercante angloindiano di legname che, insofferente ai codici di comportamento dei sahib bianchi e attratto dalla cultura orientale, si muove a cavallo tra due mondi senza riuscire a trovare una propria collocazione e, privo della forza morale necessaria per ribellarsi alla comunita bianca, rimane frustrato dagli inevitabili compromessi.
Orwell s subjects in Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier are the political and social upheavals of his time He focusses on the sense of profound injustice incipient violence and malign betrayal that were ubiquitous in Europe in the 1930s
Part war memoir part tract part expose Homage to Catalonia is a pivotal work in Orwell s oeuvre and a key to understanding his political ideas and commitment to the socialist cause Rejected by Orwell s long standing publisher Gollancz on political grounds it is here presented in its original version as published by Secker & Warburg in 1938
