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Inquietante interpretación futurista basada en la crítica a los totalitarismos y a la opresión del poder, situada en 1984 en una sociedad inglesa dominada por un sistema de "colectivismo burocrático" controlada por el Gran Hermano. Un hombre llamado Winston Smith intentara rebelarse contra ese control, manipulacion y autoritarismo. Smith trabaja en el Ministerio de la Verdad. Su cometido se limita a escribir la historia de manera que siempre coincida con los intereses y predicciones del partido, asi como a hacer desaparecer de los diarios, archivos, etc... los nombres de las personas molestas. Progresivamente se rebela contra la vida que le han obligado a llevar, y con toda clase de precauciones, intenta conservar un diario donde escribe sus dudas, sus pensamientos y sus sentimientos.

Rebelión en la granja (1945) es un cuento satírico de George Orwell acerca de un grupo de animales en una granja que expulsan a los humanos y crean un sistema de gobierno propio que acaba convirtiéndose en una tirania brutal. La novela fue escrita durante la segunda guerra mundial y, aunque fue publicada en 1945, no comenzo a ser conocida por el publico hasta finales de los años cincuenta. Rebelion en la granja constituye una critica velada de la Revolucion Rusa y una satira sobre la corrupcion del socialismo sovietico en los tiempos de Stalin.

Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

Los animales de la granja de los Jones se sublevan contra sus dueños humanos y los vencen. Pero la rebelión fracasará al surgir entre ellos rivalidades y envidias, y aliarse algunos con los amos, traicionando su propia identidad y los intereses de su clase. Una condena de la sociedad totalitaria, brillantemente plasmada en una ingeniosa fabula de caracter alegorico.

'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.

Gli animali della fattoria Manor decidono di ribellarsi al padrone e di instaurare una loro democrazia. I maiali Napoleon e Snowball capeggiano la rivoluzione che pero ben presto degenera. Infatti Napoleon, dopo aver bandito Snowball, introduce una nuova costituzione: "Tutti gli animali sono uguali, ma alcuni sono piu uguali degli altri". La dittatura e la repressione fanno riappacificare gli animali con gli uomini che ormai non appaiono piu agli exrivoluzionari molto diversi da loro.

A Revolução dos Bichos, clássico texto de George Orwell, chega aos jovens leitores nesta instigante adaptação de Henrique Rodrigues e ilustrações de Adriana Cataldo. Transportada para solo brasileiro

Imaxinas unha sociedade na que o goberno che impoña como vestir, que nova lingua falar, como actuar, como pensar? En 1984 esa sociedade existe, chámase Oceanía e comparte o dominio da Terra con outras duas superpotencias coas que adoita estar en guerra alternativamente: Eurasia e Oriasia. Londres e a principal cidade da Aeropista Un e na sua cerna esta instalado o centro do poder do estado totalitario liderado polo Irman Grande, ser omnisciente que controla a vida social e privada dos cidadans grazas a un sistema de telepantallas instaladas por todas as partes. Ilustracion de portada: Adria Fruitos

"1984 - the novel marking the end of communism." George Orwells 1984 revolves around Winston Smith, an office worker who performs censorship duties in Oceanias Ministry of Truth as a small cog in the wheel of a monstrous state apparatus. For years, doubts have been gnawing at him about the legitimacy of the system in which even a blink of the eye can cost him his life. The novel begins with the first step towards putting this initially purely intellectual resistance into action: Winston opens a diary. He subsequently falls in love with a young female colleague, and together they begin a love affair that, in the dictatorship that invades every aspect of life, is in itself an act of high treason. Even though they have different views on the society they live in, they are united by the rejection of its narrow moral corset and the desire for individual freedom and, not least, a right to love and feel. While Winston understands HOW the machinery of tyranny works, he does not understand WHY the massive effort of its surveillance and repressive apparatus is undertaken. When they decide to seek contact with the underground opposition and eventually end up in the hands of the repression apparatus of the state, Winston learns the true background of Oceanias society. Until his death, George Orwell was a convinced socialist - all the greater was the effect his work, published in 1949, had on the political left of the time. On the political left, the Soviet Union was seen as the realisation of Marxs ideas, the workers paradise that would free the enslaved masses from their shackles. Orwell was one of the few leftists of his time who dared to shake this narrative. Under the impression of the undeniable terror of Stalinist rule and its cynical, opportunistic cooperation with fascist and capitalist foreign countries, he criticised the hypocrisy and inhumanities of the real communism with Animal Farm and 1984.

A través de una historia intrincada, con temas como el lavado de cerebro, el lenguaje, la psicología y la inventiva encaminados al control físico y mental de todos los individuos, la educación totalitaria de la juventud, etcetera, Orwell relata la historia tragica y aparentemente emancipadora de Winston Smith y Julia, quienes tratan de escapar de un sistema donde la intimidad y el libre pensamiento estan prohibidos.

Se mi aveste chiesto perché mi ero arruolato nella milizia avrei risposto: "Per combattere il fascismo", e se mi aveste chiesto per cosa combattevo, avrei risposto: "per il buonsenso".Nel dicembre 1936, George Orwell si arruola volontario per difendere la democrazia in Spagna. Omaggio alla Catalogna ne racconta le vicende e levoluzione del pensiero dellautore. Lavversione per ogni totalitarismo, anche di matrice comunista, che sfocera in Animal Farm e in 1984 trova un momento esperienziale proprio in questopera. Il testo, di nuova traduzione, e accompagnato da una guida sintetica - in postfazione- su fatti e personaggi narrati nel testo, utili a contestualizzare, soprattutto alle nuove generazioni, lo scenario dellazione. Segnala informazioni inesatte.

Um livro para não esquecer. Um livro para despertar mentes. Uma sociedade hedionda, repugnante, desumana.1984 : NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR oferece hoje uma descrição quase realista do vastíssimo sistema de

Aquest és un recull d’assajos periodístics en què George Orwell explora temes diversos a l’entorn del món del llibre, la cultura, les llibreries, la professió de crític i la llibertat de premsa. En l