Books by George Orwell

The most formally experimental of all of George Orwell's novels, A Clergyman's Daughter charts the course of a young woman's voyage out of a small town in East Anglia and her eventual homecoming. This new edition of the novel is the first in over 30 years.

This new edition of Orwell's 1933 text comes with an authoratative introduction, explanatory notes, and a select bibliography to help first-time readers situate the novel in it's contexts and offer a fresh new re-evaluation of the work to returning readers.

Set at the beginning of the Second World War, Coming Up for Air describes suburban insurance agent George Bowling's return to his birthplace, a sedate Oxfordshire village. This new edition of one of George Orwell's early pre-war works explores the historical and political context of the novel.

Written during the Second World War and published in 1945, this allegorical novel is a carefully constructed critique of the Russian Revolution and a sharp satire on the abuse of power. It remains unsurpassed both as a document of its time and as a testament to the versatility and creative genius of George Orwell.

When the ill-treated animals of Manor Farm rebel against their master Mr Jones and take over the farm, they believe that this means freedom and equality for all. But then a ruthless Napoleon takes control and the other animals soon realise that they are not all as equal as they thought.

1984, by George Orwell, is a captivating piece of literature that has stood the test of time. Published by Scholastic on January 7, 2021, this dystopian novel set in a totalitarian future has become a classic in the genre. Orwell's profound and thought-provoking narrative explores themes of surveillance, freedom, and identity, making it a must-read for any avid reader. Don't miss out on this timeless masterpiece from one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, brought to you by Scholastic.

"Still outlawed by regimes around the world, Animal Farm has always been political dynamite." - The GuardianAnimal Farm - the history of a revolution that went wrong - is George Orwell''s brilliant satire on the corrupting influence of power.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 elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others''It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine.''-George Orwell About the AuthorEric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four, which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.''You can''t have a revolution unless you make it for yourself; there is no such thing as a benevolent dictatorship.''-George Orwell

Collected together for the first time, this volume includes the complete text of THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER - Orwell's vivid and impassioned documentary of unemployment and proletarian life - as well as Orwell's best writing on the political and social condition of England.

This volume brings together Orwell's powerful writings of his personal exepriences of poverty and life outside mainstream society. The complete texts of DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON is included.

Orwell's classic satire ANIMAL FARM continues to be an international best seller. For the first time ever, ORWELL AND POLITICS brings this major work together with the author's other works exploring the nature of politics and the Second World War.

-Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.Una noche todos los animales de la granja del señor Jones se reúnen en el granero para escuchar al viejo Mayor, un cerdo de avanzada edad, que les cuenta que ha tenido un sueño sobre un mundo en el que todos los animales viven libres de la tiranía de sus amos.  El viejo mayor muere poco después de la reunión en el granero,  pero los animales inspirados por su filosofía animalista empiezan a planificar una rebelión contra el señor Jones. Son dos cerdos, Snowball y Napoleon, quienes se erigen como planificadores principales de la peligrosa conspiración. Ésta obra de George Orwell es una magnífica sátira contra el régimen de Joseph Stalin que corrompió la pureza de la idea del socialismo.  George Orwell ( 1903 - 1950), cuyo nombre real era Eric Arthur Blair, fue un novelista, ensayista y periodista británico. Su obra lleva la marca de sus experiencias personales tales como su posición contra el imperialismo británico, su posición a favor del socialismo democrático y su rechazo ante los totalitarismos de Alemania y la Unión Soviética tras su participación en la guerra civil española.

A collection of Orwell's compellingly perceptive essays on subjects from food to weather to unemployment, edited and introduced by Professor Michael Gardiner.

Animal Farm is George Orwell's famous satire of Stalin's Russia told through the guise of a farm animal rebellion, featuring an introduction by journalist and writer Jason Cowley.

From George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, Coming Up for Air is the classic, comic novel about the everyday struggles of the common man and a satiric look at the trappings of middle-class suburbia.George "Tubby" Bowling is a middle-aged insurance salesman, a job at which he grimly excels, dutifully paying the mortgage on an average English suburban row house, and supporting an ungrateful family. As the years roll by, he comes to feel like a hostage to his wife and children, regarding them as wardens and himself as a prisoner.One day, after winning some money from a bet at the races, George steals away from his family to visit the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF?the perfect ending to his failed escape."A work of rare vigor and imagination."?New York Herald-Tribune Book Review

George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected--and illuminated--the fraught times in which he lived. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George Packer in his foreword, "it was as natural for Orwell to propose, generalize, qualify, argue, judge--in short, to think--as it was for Yeats to versify or Dickens to invent."Facing Unpleasant Facts charts Orwell's development as a master of the narrative-essay form and unites such classics as "Shooting an Elephant" with lesser-known journalism and passages from his wartime diary. Whether detailing the horrors of Orwell's boyhood in an English boarding school or bringing to life the sights, sounds, and smells of the Spanish Civil War, these essays weave together the personal and the political in an unmistakable style that is at once plainspoken and brilliantly complex.

The essential collection of critical essays from a twentieth-century master and author of 1984. As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net.

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 to drink whisky and to alleviate the acute and unspoken loneliness of life in 1920s Burma?where Orwell himself served as an imperial policeman?during the waning days of British imperialism. One of the men, James Flory, a timber merchant, has grown soft, clearly comprehending the futility of England's rule. However, he lacks the fortitude to stand up for his Indian friend, Dr. Veraswami, for admittance into the whites-only club. Without membership and the accompanying prestige that would protect the doctor, the condemning and ill-founded attack by a bitter magistrate might bring an end to everything he has accomplished. Complicating matters, Flory falls unexpectedly in love with a newly arrived English girl, Elizabeth Lackersteen. Can he find the strength to do right not only by his friend, but also by his conscience?

Mit seinem Roman „1984" hat George Orwell schon vor Jahrzehnten ein Zeichen gegen die drohende Gefahr eines globalen Überwachungsstaates und einer Weltdiktatur gesetzt.Heute sind die von Orwell beschriebenen Tendenzen schon wesentlichen deutlicher zu erkennen, denn der „gläserne Bürger" und das Aufkommen überstaatlicher Gebilde sind keine Fiktion mehr. Hatte Orwell noch die Schreckensvision eines globalen Bolschewismus vor Augen, so wurde diese inzwischen durch die Globalisierung und die Bestrebungen gewisser Kreise, eine „Weltregierung" unter ihrer Kontrolle einzurichten, abgelöst.Die Gefahr des weltweiten Überwachungsstaates, der zugleich Nationen, Völker, Traditionen und Kulturen aufzulösen versucht, ist demnach keineswegs gebannt. Im Gegenteil: Sie tritt gerade in unserer Gegenwart in bester orwellscher Manier zu Tage.Als Orwell seinen Roman im Jahre 1948 schrieb, wollte er eine Warnung aussprechen und das ist ihm auch gelungen. Es soll ein jeder Leser von „1984" selbst ins Nachdenken kommen und sich vor allem die Frage stellen: Wer sind die Kräfte, die in unserer heutigen Zeit den Überwachungsweltstaat durchsetzen wollen?Wer hat die Macht dazu? Wer kontrolliert z.B. die Supermacht USA durch die Beherrschung der Banken und Medien? Und welche Mächte stehen hinter der schrankenlosen Globalisierung, Kapitalisierung, Völkerentrechtung, Nationenauflösung und Internationalisierung der Welt? Es dürfte in George Orwells Sinne sein, wenn die Leser seines Buches vor allem auch die heutige Weltpolitik und ihre treibenden Kräfte kritisch betrachten.

George Orwell holds a unique place in contemporary English literature. He used facts and his own observation and when there was no actual reporting to be done, invention took over, as in Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, and his clear vision, realistic deduction and profound understanding of human behaviour enabled him to reach the inner recesses of the reader's mind and startle him to reflection and self-examination. He said that one of his motives for writing was a 'desire to see things as they are, to find true facts and store them up for the use of posterity... In a peaceful age I might have written ornate or merely descriptive books... When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself "I am going to produce a work of art." I write it because there is some lie I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial intention is to get a hearing.'