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'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine', wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote it at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished. Its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's ally, led to it being refused by publisher after publisher. Orwell's simple, tragic fable, telling what happens when the animals drive out Mr Jones and attempt to run the farm themselves, has since become a world-famous classic.

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often stylized as "1984" is a dystopian novel written by George Orwell and published in 1949. Its one of the most famous and influential works of dystopian fiction in literature.George Orwell born Eric Arthur Blairon June 25, 1903, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. He is best known for his works Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four which are both seminal works of dystopian fiction.

Dies a Birmània és una novel·la d’una gran força narrativa que descriu a estones una compenetració harmònica entre el protagonista i la natura que va prenent una posició central. Així es descabdella

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s Depression England. Suddenly her routine shatters and Dorothy finds herself down and out in London. She is wearing silk stockings, has money in her pocket and cannot remember her name. Orwell leads us through a landscape of unemployment, poverty and hunger, where Dorothy's faith is challenged by a social reality that changes her life.

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 creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life. Through the character of Gordon Comstock, Orwell reveals his own disaffection with the society he once himself renounced.

Collected together for the first time, this volume includes the complete text of The Road To Wigan Pier - Orwell''s vivid and impassioned documentary of unemployment and proletarian life - as well as Orwell''s best writing on the political and social condition of England.

This volume brings together Orwell's powerful writings of his personal exepriences of poverty and life outside mainstream society. The complete text of Down And Out In Paris And London is included.

A história da vida de George Orwell, um dos mais famosos escritores de todos os tempos, contribuiu imensamente para sua compreensão do mundo. Crítico constante do poder e da autoridade, as raízes de

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the harsh totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty he begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker, Julia, but soon discovers that the true price of freedom is betrayal.

Visionaria denuncia de los totalitarismos que han asolado el siglo XX. 1984, una de las obras más célebres de la literatura de este siglo y la obra maestra de Orwell, se ofrece ahora en una nueva traduccion, soberbiamente ilustrada por las negras luces del recientemente fallecido Antonio Saura

De tous les carrefours importants, le visage à la moustache noire vous fixait du regard. Il y en avait un sur le mur d'en face. Big brother vous regarde, répétait la légende, tandis que le regard des yeux noirs pénétrait les yeux de Winston. Au loin, un hélicoptère glissa entre les toits, plana un moment, telle une mouche bleue, puis repartit comme une flèche, dans un vol courbe. C'était une patrouille qui venait mettre le nez aux fenêtres des gens. Mais les patrouilles n'avaient pas d'importance. Seule comptait la Police de la Pensée.