George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel--a scathing satire on a downtrodden society's blind march towards totalitarianism.
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned--a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a...
George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel--a scathing satire on a downtrodden society's blind march towards totalitarianism.
Dem Roman liegt die berzeugung zugrunde, da alle Revolutionen letzten Endes nur eine Verschiebung im Kaleidoskop der Macht herbeifhren, da die Grunstrukturder Gesellschaft aber immer die gleiche bleibe. Dieser Pessimismus zeigt, da die Farm der Tiere mehr ist als nur eine Satire auf die kommunistische Revolution in Sowjetruland. Die Satire zielt nicht nur auf den einmaligen historischen Tatbestand, sondern auf jede Revolution berhaupt, deren Ursachen und Antriebe, deren Versagen und endliche Verkehrung ins Gegenteil Orwell an einem animalischen Staatswesen demonstriert.
Dem Roman liegt die berzeugung zugrunde, da alle Revolutionen letzten Endes nur eine Verschiebung im Kaleidoskop der Macht herbeifhren, da die Grunstr...
Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a story in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is a picaresque account of living on the breadline in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant kitchens. The second part is a travelogue of life on the road in and around London from the tramp's perspective, with descriptions of the types of hostel accommodation available and some of the characters to be found living on the margins. Orwell gives it an autobiographical feel by...
Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a story in two parts on t...
A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside-down when she suffers an attack of amnesia. It is Orwell's most formally experimental novel, featuring a chapter written entirely in dramatic form.
A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, who...
As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home in discussing Charles Dickens & Charlie Chaplin, he moved back & forth across the borders between essay & journalism. These essays follow Orwell as he shows in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or a body of work gives rise to aesthetic & philosophical commentary.
As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home in discussing Charles Dickens & Charlie Chaplin, he moved back & forth across the borders ...
In a world where cheap entertainment keeps the proles ignorant but content, where a war without end is always fought and the government is always watching, can Winston possibly hold onto what he feels inside? Or will he renounce everything, accept the Party's reality and learn to love Big Brother?
In a world where cheap entertainment keeps the proles ignorant but content, where a war without end is always fought and the government is always watc...
"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." So wrote George Orwell in the original blurb for the first edition of "Animal Farm "in 1945. His simple and tragic fable describes what happens when the animals drive out Mr. Jones, the farmer, and attempt to run the Manor Farm themselves. "Animal Farm "has become a world-famous classic of English prose, and is a strong political allegory with parallels to the old Soviet regime. Reader Simon Callow is a British actor with a...
"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 origi...
George Orwell, Robert Icke (Author), Duncan Macmillan
April, 1984. Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye. Its ideas have become our ideas, and Orwell s fiction is often said to be our reality. The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in a radical new adaptation exploring why Orwell s vision of the future is as relevant as ever. "This is a staging that reconsiders a classic with such steely power that it chills brain, blood and bone." - The Times " A] pitilessly brilliant retelling." -...
April, 1984. Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to Room 101 can swing o...
