Bücher von George Orwell

1940, der Zweite Weltkrieg wütete in Europa, schrieb George Orwell den Essay >Im Innern des WalsOrwell Memorial Lecture

Dieser Band enthält einen Essay über den literarischen Werdegang Orwells, eine hellsichtige Verteidigung von Henry Millers >Wendekreis des Krebses< sowie eine Bestandsaufnahme der Literatur der zwanziger und dreißiger Jahre, Artikel über Rudyard Kipling und Mark Twain, eine empörte Antwort auf H.G. Wells' Zeitungsberichte Anfang 1941, in denen Hitlers militärisches Potential nach der Kapitulation Frankreichs unterschätzt wird, sowie die beiden autobiographischen Erzählungen >Einen Mann hängen< und >Einen Elefanten erschießen

This Collection of Poems from George Orwell has 13 Poems and it includes below poems.· A Dressed Man· A Little Poem· Awake! Young Men of England· Ironic Poem about Prostitution· Kitchener· On A Ruined Farm Near The 'His Master's Voice Gramophone Factory'· Our Minds Are Married, But We are Too Young· Poem from Burma· Romance· Sometimes In The Middle Autumn Days· Summer-Like· The Lesser Evil· The Pagan

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned -a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell's masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.

In 'Down and Out in Paris and London,' Orwell follows the life of an impoverished English writer living in two great European cities during the early 1930s. In this classic partly autobiographical literary work on poverty and its impact on the human condition, Orwell explores several of the classic themes evident in most of his writing--man vs. society, social injustice and the plight of ordinary people at the hands of oppressive and exploitative political systems.Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was a ground breaking 20th century English author and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, and passionate belief in ideals of democratic socialism.1st Viewforth Classics edition. Dr Craig Paterson, General Editor.

LE COLLECTOR 1984 : un produit d¿exception pour les fans du roman !Retrouvez en exclusivité mondiale, une interview du fils de George Orwell traduite en français ! Mais aussi une interview de la dernière traductrice en date de 1984¿ et aussi 55 illustrations commentées artistiquement et techniquement par leur créateur Yoann Laurent-Rouault, concepteur de cet ouvrage. Vous retrouverez bien sûr aussi un résumé de 1984 chapitre par chapitre, que les illustrations viennent émailler. Sans oublier quatre essais peu connus de George Orwell dont les confessions d¿un critique littéraire !L'interview de Richard Blair, le fils de George Orwell, est menée par Silvia Pingitore (fondatrice du magazine Theshortlisted). Chaque dessin des 55 qui vous sont présentés est commenté d'un point de vue technique comme d'un point de vue créatif ou rhétorique. Parmi ces 55 illustrations, on y retrouve les 35 publiées dans le fonds Memoria Books, plus 20 illustrations totalement inédites et exclusives qui viennent émailler les différents chapitres. Ce sont des phrases clés, des scènes capitales, des «¿images parlées¿» du livre, mais aussi des affiches de propagande et de guerre qui viendront ravir les passionnés de 1984. De quoi passer un agréable moment hors du temps en compagnie de cette édition collector. Et n'oubliez pas : Big Brother vous regarde !

A sharp-edged portrayal of the slippery slope from revolt for equality to tyrannical totalitarianism, George Orwell's Animal Farm follows a group of mistreated animals as they rebel and attempt to take over their farm. In Orwell's timeless allegory, the animals brandish biting slogans and declare equality across the farm, but their idealisms slowly merge into a new kind of enslavement as one of the pigs leads them into a dictatorship. First published in 1945, this satirical novella evidences the endless corruptive cycle of power. A must-read for book lovers of all ages, this new edition of Animal Farm has been republished with an introductory essay by Orwell, 'Why I Write'.

George Bowling, a forty-five-year-old insurance salesman with a wife and two children, is overweight, depressed and haunted by ever-present portents of imminent global conflict. Dreaming of escaping the staid suburban rut in which he has become embedded, he reminisces about his home town in Oxfordshire, Lower Binfield. But as he seeks refuge in the rural idyll of his treasured childhood memories, the rapacious forces of "progress" continue their relentless march, eventually forcing George to reflect on the folly of nostalgia and the impossibility of reliving the past.By turns comic and melancholy, Orwell's fourth novel - published in 1939 to critical and commercial acclaim by Victor Gollancz - is Wellsian in its exploration of the frustrations and helplessness of a lower-middle-class protagonist faced with the indifference of a rapidly changing world, and a vital record of a society on the verge of war.

'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as 'My Country Right or Left', 'How the Poor Die' and 'Such, Such were the Joys', his memoir of the horrors of public school, as well as discussions of Shakespeare, sleeping rough, boys' weeklies and a spirited defence of English cooking. Opinionated, uncompromising, provocative and hugely entertaining, all show Orwell's unique ability to get to the heart of any subject.