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Animal Farm is regarded in the literary field as one of the most famous satirical allegories of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell based the book on events up to and during Joseph Stalin's regime. Orwell, a democratic socialist and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was a critic of Stalin and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences in the Spanish Civil War.The plot is an allegory in which the pigs in a farm play the role of the Bolshevik revolutionaries and overthrow and oust the human owners of the farm, setting it up as a commune in which, at first, all animals are equal. The other characters have their parallels in the real world, but care should be taken with these comparisons as they do not always match history exactly and often simply represent generalised concepts.The novel was chosen by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present.

Nineteen Eighty-Four, Often Published as 1984, is a Dystopian novel by English writer George Orwell published in June 1949, whose themes centre on the risks of government overreach, totalitarianism and repressive regimentation of all persons and behaviours within society. The novel is set in an Imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, Omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism and Propaganda.

Burmese Days is the first novel by English writer George Orwell. Set in British Burma during the waning days of Empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, it is "a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj." At the centre of the novel is John Flory, "the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature. The novel describes "both indigenous corruption and imperial bigotry" in a society where, "after all, natives were natives-interesting, no doubt, but finally...an inferior people".

Now presented in a new annotated edition, The Road to Wigan Pier represents a unique record of a society riven by class inequality and plagued by unemployment, inadequate housing, unsafe working conditions and other social ills, as well as providing an invaluable insight into the evolution of Orwell's political consciousness.

A Revolução dos Bicho sé uma das obras que há muito provou sua a temporalidade. Publicada pela primeira vez em 1945, a sátira de George Orwell sobre a Revolução Russa de 1917.

Nineteen Eighty-Four, Often Published as 1984, is a Dystopian novel by English writer George Orwell published in June 1949, whose themes centre on the risks of government overreach, totalitarianism and repressive regimentation of all persons and behaviours within society. The novel is set in an Imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, Omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism and Propaganda.

Na Pior em Paris e Londres foi publicado em 1933 pelo autor de 1984 e A Revolução dos Bichos. É seu primeiro romance, mas na época ele ainda não havia adotado o nome de George Orwell. Era ainda Eric Arthur Blair, um ex-policial que abandonou o emprego e passou dias miseráveis em Londres e Paris.

George Orwell consagrado de 1984 e A Revolução do Bichos. Retrata neste livro um momento em que a II Guerra Mundial está prestes a estourar. George Bowling, um homem gordo de 45 anos, que começou a usar dentadura, tem saudades de sua adolescência, quando tinha peixes no Tâmisa. George compara os dias de sua maturidade e decide revisitar o local onde foi feliz. Para isso, usa um dinheiro que guardara secretamente e monta um plano para que sua mulher Hilda não saiba.

Gordon Comstock é um poeta frustrado de quase 30 anos. Revoltado contra o capitalismo e a falta de dinheiro, larga um bom emprego e vive em uma pensão. Em guerra com uma planta que considera símbolo da classe média inglesa. Flor da Inglaterra foi escrito em 1936 por George Orwell, autor de 1984 e A revolução dos Bichos. Pode ser um autorretrato do autor.

Dias na Birmânia é um dos primeiros romances de George Orwell, consagrado autor de 1984 e revolução dos Bichos. O livro se baseia nas experiências de Orwell naquele país asiático, próximo à Tailândia. Que hoje se chama Mianmar. Na época era colônia inglesa e o escritor, que se chama Arthur Blair, trabalhou lá como policial. Personagem principal é John Flory, britânico que se posiciona do lado dos nativos. Ele tem uma marca de nascença no rosto e se apaixona por Elizabeth.

George Orwell, consagrado autor de 1984 e Revolução dos Bichos, escreveu o Caminho para Wigan Pier em 1937, um pouco antes de seus maiores sucessos. Mostra o trabalho em uma mina de carvão, em condições insalubres e baixo salário. Traz detalhes da vida miserável em pensão do bairro industrial. Sujeira, poluição, pobreza. Mais atual do que nunca.

Em uma das obras mais influentes do século XX, George Orwell retrata uma sociedade assustadoramente totalitária, onde não há liberdade nem mesmo para concluir que dois mais dois são quatro. Seu ponto de vista sombrio faz uma referência tirânica à realidade, principalmente sob o aspecto da vigilância constante, cuja opressão muitos leitores creem ser mais relevante hoje do que nunca.

"A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him." "It is worth saying something about the social position of beggars, for when one has consorted with them, and found that they are ordinary human beings, one cannot help being struck by the curious attitude that society takes towards them. People seem to feel that there is some essential difference between beggars and ordinary 'working' men. They are a race apart--outcasts, like criminals and prostitutes. Working men 'work', beggars do not 'work'; they are parasites, worthless in their very nature. It is taken for granted that a beggar does not 'earn' his living, as a bricklayer or a literary critic 'earns' his. He is a mere social excrescence, tolerated because we live in a humane age, but essentially despicable."

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.

1984 and Animal Farm portray George Orwell's prescient understanding of modern life-the power of media, the distortion of language, and the suppression of individual thought and expression. Required reading for students since they were first published, these are two of the most disturbing and powerful novels ever written.

On one level, Animal Farm is a simple tale about barnyard animals. On a deeper level, it is a pointed political satire about corrupted ideals, class conflict, and misdirected revolution-themes as valid today as when the book was first published.

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.