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Los animales de la granja de los Jones se sublevan contra sus dueños humanos y les vencen. Pero la rebelión fracasará al surgir entre ellos rivalidades y envidias, y al aliarse algunos con los amos que derrocaron, traicionando su propia identidad y los intereses de su clase. Aunque Rebelion en la granja fue concebida como una despiadada satira del estalinismo, el caracter universal de su mensaje hace de este libro un extraordinario analisis de la corrupcion que engendra el poder, una furibunda diatriba contra el totalitarismo de cualquier especie y un lucido examen de las manipulaciones que sufre la verdad historica en los momentos de transformacion politica.

Ce conte animalier est un réquisitoire impitoyable contre tous les totalitarismes en général et la dictature communiste en particulier.

A collection of erudite and typically contrarian essays from the late great art critic.Writing for the Evening Standard, but ever unwilling to tow the line, Brian gives uncompromising, witty and cultured opinions on the hot topics of his day, many of which are startlingly relevant now. Written while columnist for the Evening Standard from 1996 to 2002, Brian Sewell''s Orwell Prize-winning essays tackle issues as diverse as battery farming and pornography as well as subjects still at the fore of public discourse such as housing and immigration. He wages a veritable one man war against the political and social evils of the time and casts his discerning eye over the tenures of both John Major and Tony Blair, ever the sceptic as the latter was swept to power on a wave of optimism.Controversial and idiosyncratic throughout, his opinions are backed up by a vast well of knowledge and his humanitarian instincts shine through in diatribes on attitudes towards homelessness and child labour, among other causes. Written with his trademark eloquence and humour, this collection celebrates his extraordinary career and marks a year on from his sad death at the age of 84.

Orwell recoge aquí los frutos de la breve pero intensa experiencia por la persecución sufrida por el POUM después de su ilegalización. Reúne todo cuanto este autor escribió sobre la guerra civil espa

Unha sátira contra as ditaturas, unha fábula moderna que critica os totalitarismos e a corrupción que enxendra o poder. Máis aló do rexime sovietico no que se contextualiza, e unha ferramenta de formacion nas aulas. Ilustracion de portada: Adria Fruitos

Aunque Rebelión en la granja fue concebida como una sátira devastadora sobre la degeneración del régimen soviético en la época de Stalin, el carácter universal de su mensaje la convierte en una obra fundamental para comprender la corrupcion engendrada por el poder absoluto. Despues de ser rechazada por cuatro editores, Animal Farm fue publicada por Secker & Warburg en 1945 y no fue conocida por el gran publico hasta entrados los años 50. Hoy, traducida en todo el mundo y con millones de ejemplares vendidos, se ha convertido en una obra canonica y en un lucido legado literario de uno de los autores mas clarividentes y con mayor compromiso social del siglo xx.La presente edicion de Libros del Zorro Rojo, incluye mas de 50 ilustraciones, asi como tambien bocetos preliminares, del multipremiado artista britanico, Ralph Steadman, especializado en satira politica y social. Su notable trabajo para Rebelion en la granja, amplifica y trasciende los sentidos de la fabula erigiendose como una de las interpretaciones mas originales que se hayan realizado. La traduccion al castellano ha estado a cargo de Marcial Souto, reconocidotraductor de autores tales como J. G. Ballard o Ray Bradbury.

This meticulously edited collection of George Orwells Critical Writings is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:Thoughts on England:Down the MineNorth and SouthDemocracy in the British ArmyThe Lion and the UnicornAntisemitism in BritainIn Defence of English CookingDecline of the English MurderPolitics and the English LanguageReflections on War and Society:Spilling the Spanish BeansNot Counting NiggersProphecies of FascismWells, Hitler and the World StateLooking Back on the Spanish WarWho Are the War Criminals?Future of a Ruined GermanyRevenge is SourYou and the Atomic BombNotes on NationalismCatastrophic GradualismFreedom of the ParkHow the Poor DieIn Front of Your NoseViews on Literature, Art & Famous Men:In Defence of the NovelNotes on the WayCharles DickensCharles ReadeInside The WhaleLiterature and TotalitarianismThe Art of Donald McgillRudyard KiplingW. B. YeatsMark TwainRaffles and Miss BlandishArthur KoestlerBenefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador DaliGood Bad BooksNonsense PoetryIn Defence of P. G. WodehousePolitics vs. LiteratureConfessions of a Book ReviewerThe Prevention of LiteratureLear, Tolstoy and the FoolWriters and LeviathanReflections on GandhiBook Reviews:Mein KampfPersonal RecordThe Totalitarian EnemyThe Development of William Butler YeatsMiscellaneous Writings:A Farthing NewspaperThe SpikeA HangingBookshop MemoriesShooting an ElephantMarrakechNew WordsBoys Weeklies and Frank Richardss ReplyPoetry and the MicrophoneThe Sporting SpiritA Good Word for the Vicar of BrayA Nice Cup of TeaPleasure SpotsRiding Down from BangorSome Thoughts on the Common ToadJames Burnham and the Managerial RevolutionWhy I WriteBooks vs. CigarettesSuch, Such Were the JoysAs I Please

This is the essential edition of the essential book of modern times,1984, now annotated for students with an introduction by D. J. Taylor...

Una novela nostálgica y cómica del Orwell más humano.George Bowling, el protagonista de Subir a por aire, es un agente de seguros de mediana edad que vive en una típica casa suburbana inglesa con su mujer y sus dos hijos. Un dia, al estrenar su nueva dentadura postiza, siente la necesidad de "subir a por aire". Con diecisiete libras que ha ganado en una carrera, decide tomarse unas vacaciones lejos de su familia para visitar Lower Binfield, el pueblo donde crecio, y el estanque donde solia pescar carpas treinta años atras. Pero el estanque ha desaparecido, el pueblo se ha vuelto irreconocible y el principal acontecimiento de sus vacaciones es un bombardeo accidental de las fuerzas de la R.A.F. A traves del relato de las andanzas del protagonista, comico y corrosivo a la vez, Orwell traza una nostalgica vision de las costumbres inglesas desde 1893 año del nacimiento de Bowling hasta 1938, cuando ya se cernia el espectro de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

"The Road to Wigan Pier" is a book by the English writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions among the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II. The second half is a long essay on his middle-class upbringing, and the development of his political conscience, questioning British attitudes towards socialism. Orwell states plainly that he himself is in favour of socialism, but feels it necessary to point out reasons why many people who would benefit from socialism, and should logically support it, are in practice likely to be strong opponents.According to Orwell biographer Bernard Crick, publisher Victor Gollancz first tried to persuade Orwells agent to allow the Left Book Club edition to consist solely of the descriptive first half of the book. When this was refused Gollancz wrote an introduction to the book. "Victor could not bear to reject it, even though his suggestion that the repugnant second half should be omitted from the Club edition was turned down. On this occasion Victor, albeit nervously, did overrule Communist Party objections in favour of his publishing instinct. His compromise was to publish the book with [an introduction] full of good criticism, unfair criticism, and half-truths."The book grapples "with the social and historical reality of Depression suffering in the north of England, Orwell does not wish merely to enumerate evils and injustices, but to break through what he regards as middle-class oblivion, Orwells corrective to such falsity comes first by immersion of his own body a supreme measure of truth for Orwell directly into the experience of misery."