George Orwell - Books and biography

A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an...

Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's...

Collected Essays George Orwell - Essays by the brilliant, indispensable George Orwell from 1943 to 1945. Even many decades after his death, the more we read of Orwell, the more clearly we can think about...

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell - The essential backstory to the creation and meaning of George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four, one of the most important books of the 20th centuryand now the 21stSince...

Edição Especial para Leitores ExigentesRelançado pela Troia Editora, "A Revolução dos Bichos" (1945), de George Orwell (1903-1950), sátira ao comunismo soviético do século XX, retrata o arbítrio e a desigualdade...

Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell - A National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century One of Orwells very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War.The New...

"Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel", often published as "1984", is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's...

"Inside the Whale and Other Essays" is a collection of 9 essays by George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist,...

"Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays" is a collection of 23 essays by George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist,...

"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...

"Politics and the English Language and Other Essays" is a collection of 6 essays by George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English...

"Coming Up for Air" is the seventh book by English writer George Orwell, published in June 1939 by Victor Gollancz. It was written between 1938 and 1939 while Orwell spent time recuperating from illness...

"A Clergyman's Daughter" is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an...

"Fifty Essays" is a collection of 50 essays by George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and...

"Animal Farm" is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping...

"Burmese Days" is the first novel by English writer George Orwell, published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of Empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, it...

"Homage to Catalonia" is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting for the POUM militia of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. The war was one of the...

"Review of Adolph Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'" is an essay of George Orwell. "Mein Kampf" ("My Struggle" or "My Fight") is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work describes...

"Keep the Aspidistra Flying", first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of...

"Down and Out in Paris and London" is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities, which was...

Orwells Streitschrift aus dem Jahr 1945 befasst sich mit den Ursachen des Nationalismus', aber auch mit den verwandten Phänomenen der modernen Ideologie aufgrund ähnlicher Haltungen. Orwell erweist sich...

De 1941 à 1943, Orwell fut engagé par le service indien de la BBC destiné à porter une bonne parole culturelle et politique aux sujets du bon roi George VI du sous-continent asiatique. Esprit libre entre...

Venez découvrir La Ferme des animaux, le roman de George Orwell, grâce à une analyse littéraire de référence. Écrite par un spécialiste universitaire, cette fiche de lecture est recommandée par de nombreux...

Poteva essere uno straccione e morire di freddo o anche di fame, ma finché era in grado di leggere, pensare e cercare le meteore nel cielo era libero nella mente. Perché i vagabondi sono così detestati?...

"Quello che realizzò in maniera sempre più chiara via via che passavano gli anni era che l’adorazione dei soldi si era elevata al rango di religione. Forse è l’unica vera religione, l’unica religione...

Eines Nachts versammeln sich alle Tiere vom "Herrenhof" in der großen Scheune, um Old Major zu lauschen. Der preisgekrönte alte Eber hatte einen Traum, in dem die Tiere der Farm das Joch der Unterdrückung...

Nel 1936 George Orwell arriva in Spagna per scrivere alcuni articoli sulla guerra civile in atto che vede contrapposti il governo legittimo della Repubblica, sostenuto da anarchici e comunisti, e le truppe...

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,...