Böcker av George Orwell

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.

"Så varför fortsätter vi att leva på detta eländiga vis? Därför att nästan hela resultatet av vår möda stjäls av människor. Där, kamrater, har vi svaret på alla våra problem. Det kan summeras med ett enda ord: människan. Människan är den enda verkliga fiende vi har. Om människan försvann ur bilden skulle orsaken till hunger och utmattning vara borta för alltid."Det här är en berättelse om en revolution som går fel – och om hur även den mest inbitna idealisten kan korrumperas.Djuren på en gård gör revolt mot sin ägare Mr Jones, mot Människan, och tar över förvaltningen av gården. Revolutionens syfte är enkelt, med egenstyre ska djuren äntligen kunna få leva i ett samhälle präglat av frihet, jämlikhet och lycka. Med nyvunnen makt över människorna måste även ett nytt överhuvud utses på gården.Grisarna utmärker sig från de andra djuren. Deras intelligens är hög men deras karaktär desto sämre. Tillsammans tar grisarna Napoleon och Snöboll sig an att agera huvudsakligt styre på gården, något som snart ska visa sig få katastrofala följder. Revolutionen förlorar sitt syfte och riktning och de utopiska drömmarna får ge vika för maktens frestelser."Djurens gård" är en allegorisk fabel och tidlös klassiker om farorna vid politisk totalitarism. Det är en satirisk berättelse om utopiska ansatser och giriga makthavare.George Orwell [1903–1950] var en engelsk författare och journalist. Orwell behandlade ofta samhällskritiska teman och var en uttalad motståndare gentemot totalitära välden. Han är mest känd för sina verk "Animal Farm" (1945) samt "Nineteen Eigthy-Four" (1949). Termen "Orwellsk" har myntats som en beskrivning av totalitära och auktoritära sociala fenomen som är skadliga för det fria samhället, vilket talar för Orwells inflytelserika röst. Som otröttlig provokatör genom sin polemiska journalism och skarpsynta samhällsskildringar har hans litterära ansträngningar gjort honom till en beständig samhällskämpe.

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.

Inside the Whale discusses Henry Miller's controversial Tropic of Cancer, and considers the driving power behind the great books of the 1930s. Comparing Miller with other literary giants, Orwell lambasts the notion that all literature is good, forcing the reader to think for themselves.

This annotation edition of Orwell's well-known satire is perfectfor students and Orwell enthusiasts alike. Extra wide margins anddouble spacing leaves lots of room for notes. Contains top tipson effective annotation and different revision techniques.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale written by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the totalitarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.

On Reading collects together Orwell's short essays on books - 'Bookshop Memories', 'Good Bad Books', 'Nonsense Poetry', 'Books vs. Cigarettes' and 'Confessions of a Book Reviewer' - giving a rounded view of the great writer's opinions on the literature of his day, and the vessels in which it was sold.

This book is a 2-in-1 combo of Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia by the world renowned author George Orwell. George Orwell is one of the world's most influential writers, the visionary author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four and non-fiction classics Down and Out in Paris in London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia. George Orwell was born Eric Blair in India in 1903 into a comfortable 'lower-upper-middle class' family. Orwell's father had served the British Empire, and Orwell's own first job was as a policeman in Burma. Orwell wrote in "Shooting an Elephant" (1936) that his time in the police force had shown him the "dirty work of Empire at close quarters"; the experience made him a lifelong foe of imperialism. By the time of his death in 1950, he was world-renowned as a journalist and author: for his eyewitness reporting on war (shot in the neck in Spain) and poverty (tramping in London, washing dishes in Paris or visiting pits and the poor in Wigan); for his political and cultural commentary, where he stood up to power and said the unsayable ('If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'); and for his fiction, including two of the most popular novels ever written: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

1984's brilliance comes from 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 it was first published, it is one of the most disturbing and powerful novels ever written.