George Orwell - Libros y biografía

George Orwell é um dos escritores mais importantes do século XX. Foi autor de romances, ensaios, críticas e artigos jornalísticos, com textos de fácil compreensão, inteligentes e críticos, apontando as...

Publicado pela primeira vez em 1933, este é um livro de memórias fictício, mas também um pouco autobiográfico que trata da pobreza nas duas cidades. A primeira parte é um relato de como um escritor...

Ambientado em Londres, em 1930, tem como tema principal a ambição romântica de Gordon Comstock de desafiar a adoração do deus do dinheiro e do status. A Planta de Ferro referência à aspidistra não é...

A new edition of Orwell's end-of-tether third novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. TaylorFirst published in 1936, and drawing on Orwell's own experiences of working in a Hampstead bookshop,...

A new edition of Orwell's elegiac fourth novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. TaylorFirst published in 1939 and dominated by the shadow of the Second World War, Coming up for Air finds...

À la Ferme du Manoir, les animaux en ont assez d'être maltraités. Major l'ancien, leur doyen, leur a ouvert les yeux sur la tyrannie de l'Homme. Il faut faire la révolution ! Une fois le fermier banni,...

From the author of 1984, George Orwell narrates the journey of a writer among the down-and-out in two great cities in this sobering, truthful portrayal of poverty and society. Famous for its realistic...

A new edition of Orwell's early work, showing the origins of his commitment to social justice.A new edition of Orwell's early account of bleak working class life in the industrial culture of Yorkshire...

Winston Smith, obscur tâcheron au ministère de la Vérité, réécrit le passé et envoie dûment dans le vide-mémoire les documents devenus obsolètes.Le Parti a toujours raison et aucun fait ne doit le contredire.Comment...

Suite à l’insurrection menée contre les hommes, deux cochons règnent en maître sur la Ferme des Animaux. Napoléon et Boule de neige agissent au nom de la liberté pour régir une société nouvelle, égalitaire,...

« C’est lorsqu’on commence à entretenir une relation professionnelle avec les livres que l’on découvre à quel point ils sont généralement mauvais. »Ce recueil inédit présente quatre textes sur le livre...

« Il y a une réalité qu’il faut regarder en face : renoncer aux distinctions de classes revient à renoncer à une part de soi-même. Prenons mon cas particulier : je suis représentatif de la classe moyenne,...

Il était une fois un monde où la liberté n’existait pas, où chacun était sous le contrôle de tous, et surtout d’un seul : le Grand Frère. Il était une fois un monde où la vérité répondait aux intérêts...

A new edition of Orwell's early work, showing the origins of his commitment to social justice.A new edition with a new introduction, this is a deeply personal record of Orwell's growing despair and disillusionment...

A new edition of Orwell's timeless dystopian classic, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. TaylorSince its first publication in 1949, Orwell's devastating expose of the totalitarian mind has...

Lassés d’une existence de servitude, les animaux de la ferme du Manoir se soulèvent contre la tyrannie de leur maître : c’est la révolution. Les cochons, meneurs du mouvement, décrètent que désormais...

A new edition of Orwell's savage satire of the Soviet Revolution, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. TaylorFirst published in 1945, just as the allied forces had begun to parcel up the post-war...

Le classique de George Orwell lu par Arthur Teboul, la voix de Feu! Chatterton Quand les animaux de la ferme du Manoir, las des abus, renversent leur maître, l'acoolique Mr Jones, et reprennent le contrôle...

A National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century. “One of Orwell’s very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War.” — The New Yorker In 1936, originally...

Over the course of his career, George Orwell wrote about many things, but no matter what he wrote the goal was to get at the fundamental truths of the world. He had no place for dissemblers, liars, conmen,...

Before he authored the dystopian 1984 and the allegorical Animal Farm, George Orwell was a journalist, reporting on England's working class — an investigation that led him to examine democratic socialism....

Plongez en VO dans ce chef-d'oeuvre absolu. Pour vous aider, des traductions en marge vous permettront de bien comprendre le texte original. Ce texte en VO fait partie des lectures imposées pour les classes...

75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION“Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New YorkerIn...

The animals of Manor Farm have revolted and taken over. Upon the death of Old Major, pigs Snowball and Napoleon lead a revolt against Mr. Jones, driving him from the farm. The animals embrace the Seven...

In this bestselling compilation of essays, written in the clear-eyed, uncompromising language for which he is famous, Orwell discusses with vigor such diverse subjects as his boyhood schooling, the Spanish...

This edition features George Orwell's best known novels – 1984 and Animal Farm – with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens. In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and...

Honest and evocative, George Orwell’s first novel is an examination of the debasing effect of empire on occupied and occupier.Burmese Days focuses on a handful of Englishmen who meet at the European Club...

Homage to Catalonia remains one of the most famous accounts of the Spanish Civil War. With characteristic scrutiny, Orwell questions the actions and motives of all sides whilst retaining his firm beliefs...

George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most famous and influential novels of the 20th century. This terrifying dystopia, which he created in a time of great social and political unrest, remains...

Animal Farm is George Orwell’s brilliant political satire and allegorical fable about the corrupting effects of power. Published in 1945 it is, to this day, one of the most famous and influential works...