Knihy od: Orwell, G.

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To be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was to experience life at its lowest ebb. George Orwell, penniless and with nowhere to go, found himself experiencing just this as he wandered the streets of both capitals in search of a job. By day, he tramped the streets,...

George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society from the author of 1984, published with an introduction by Dervla Murphy in Penguin Modern Classics. 'You have talked...

George Orwell was perhaps the twentieth century's best chronicler of English culture and one of our most significant political thinkers. In this covetable boxed set are collected together four of his essential works, including the seminal novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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His best-known novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, are two of the most famous, well-quoted and influential political satires ever written. The other novels in this volume are also concerned with individuals at odds with repressive institutions: the corrupt imperialism of Burmese Days, disaffection with materialistic society in Keep the...

Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people’s lives every second of the day. Alone in his small, one-room apartment, Winston dreams of a better life. Is freedom from this life of suffering possible? There must be something that the Party cannot control – something like love,...

Sinopsis: Los animales de la granja de los Jones se sublevan contra sus due?os 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...

Fille unique, Dorothy vit une existence morne avec son p re, le pasteur acari

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 totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful...

Roman ´´Da zdravstvuet fikus!´´ Dzhordzha Oruella (1903-1950), avtora znamenitoj antiutopii ´´1984´´, vo mnogom avtobiografichen. Glavnyj geroj, talantlivyj i nepriznannyj poet, preziraet material´noe blagopoluchie i poshlost´ obydennoj zhizni, simvolom kotoroj sluzhit fikus. Tol´ko lyubov´ zastavlyaet ego ponyat´, chto pomimo vysokogo iskusstva suschestvuyut prostye radosti, a v stremlenii zarabotat´ den´gi net nichego...

Im Orwell-Staat wird eine neue Sprache verordnet, das sogenannte Neusprech. Zusammen mit dem sogenannten Zwiedenk soll den Menschen das Denken abgewöhnt werden. Orwell beschriebt eindrucksvoll, wie durch Veränderung der Sprache der Manipulation des Volkes durch die herrschende Klasse Tür und Tor geöffnet werden kann. Besonders deutlich wird das, wenn die...

Orwells Meisterwerk der politischen Satire mit dem geflügelten Resümee: Alle Tiere sind gleich, aber einige Tiere sind gleicher als andere. Mit Zeichnungen von F. K. Waechter, Essays und Dokumenten. Dem Roman liegt die Überzeugung zugrunde, daß alle Revolutionen letzten Endes nur eine Verschiebung im Kaleidoskop der Macht herbeiführen, daß die...

De tous les carrefours importants, le visage 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 hélicopt re...

An apocalyptic tale set in a nation ruled by Big Brother, where speech is doctored and thoughts are controlled by totalitarian agents. From the author of Animal Farm and Down and Out in Paris and London.

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control....

Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell´s fable of a workers´ revolution gone wrong has been recognized as a classic of modern political satire. Fuelled by Orwell´s intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing--both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works....

Un certain 21 juin eut lieu en Angleterre la révolte des animaux. Les cochons dirigent le nouveau régime. Snowball et Napoléon, cochons en chef, affichent un r glement : Tout ce qui est sur deux jambes est un ennemi. Tout ce qui est sur quatre jambes ou poss de...