"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...

Keep the Aspidistra Flying von Orwell, George

Eric 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...

Under the feckless husbandry of Mr Jones, the Manor Farm has fallen into disrepair. Pushed into hardship, the animals decide to stage a revolt, and, led by two young pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, they overthrow Mr Jones and drive him away...

"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...

"Politics and the English Language" ist ein Essay von George Orwell, der 1946 veröffentlicht wurde. In diesem Werk kritisiert Orwell den Verfall der englischen Sprache und argumentiert, dass dieser Verfall mit politischer und...

Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of...

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