'It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.' This is the opening sentence of the most influential novel of the century, in English or in any of the sixty or more languages which boast a translation. Nineteen...

A special large-format edition of George Orwell's classic, illustrated in full color by legendary gonzo artist Ralph Steadman “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing...

This reader is accompanied with a CD that contains the full audio of the text in MP3 format. Old Major, the boar, dreams of farms run by animals for animals, with liberty and equality for all. When the animals of Manor Farm, led by the...

Orwell draws on his years of experience in India to tell this story of the waning days of British imperialism. A handful of Englishmen living in a settlement in Burma congregate in the European Club, drink whiskey, and argue over an...

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,...

An enlightening anthology of George Orwell's journalism and non-fiction writing. A mix of well-known and intriguing, less familiar pieces. von Orwell, George

Winston Smith lebt in einer Albtraumwelt, in der die Gedankenpolizei jeden ausspioniert und Kinder dazu erzogen werden, ihre Eltern zu verraten. Selbst das kleinste Anzeichen einer Meinungsverschiedenheit mit der Partei führt zu Folter,...

These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to...

Orwells Streitschrift aus dem Jahr 1945 befasst sich mit den Ursachen des Nationalismus', aber auch mit den verwandten Phänomenen der modernen Ideologie aufgrund ähnlicher Haltungen. Orwell erweist sich dabei als scharfsinniger...

After travelling to Spain at the end of 1936 with the intention of working as a correspondent for a British socialist newspaper, thirty-three-year-old George Orwell decided to join the Republican efforts to overturn Franco's Nationalists...

A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its...

"Animal Farm" ist eine Allegorie von George Orwell, die sich auf die Ereignisse der russischen Revolution und den Aufstieg Stalins zur Macht bezieht. Die Geschichte beginnt auf einer englischen Farm, wo die Tiere sich gegen ihren...