In "Nineteen eighty-four", one of the 20th century's great myth-makers takes a cold look at the future. Orwell's study of individual struggling - or not struggling - against totalitarianism remains a salutary lesson in any society. von...

Despite hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock decides to declare war on money and all the middle-class trappings that wealth can buy. Working in a small bookshop and living in a bedsit in London, he...

George Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one man's attempt to recapture childhood innocence as war looms on the horizon.George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged,...

This new collection brings together four of Orwell's short sketches of English life with his masterful analysis of a crumbling English society. von Orwell, George

"Nineteen Eighty-Four: 75th Anniversary" von Sandra Newman ist eine aktualisierte und erweiterte Ausgabe des klassischen dystopischen Romans "1984" von George Orwell, der ursprünglich 1949 veröffentlicht wurde. Diese Jubiläumsausgabe...

„The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius“ ist ein Essay von George Orwell, der 1941 veröffentlicht wurde. In diesem Werk untersucht Orwell die politische und gesellschaftliche Lage Englands während des Zweiten...

In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning), as well as...

1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) was George Orwell's final novel and was completed in difficult conditions shortly before his early death. It is one of the most influential and widely-read novels of the post-war period. von Orwell, George

Farm der Tiere (Animal Farm) ist eine dystopische Fabel von George Orwell, erschienen im Jahr 1945. Inhalt ist die Erhebung der Tiere einer englischen Farm gegen die Herrschaft ihres menschlichen Besitzers, der sie vernachlässigt und...

In einem der berühmtesten Werke des 20. Jahrhunderts erzählt George Orwell von den Tieren des Farmers Jones, die sich gemeinschaftlich gegen ihren menschlichen Herren auflehnen und diesen auch vertreiben - nur um nach der geglückten...

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty...

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play. Suddenly her...