Best Selling Books by George Orwell

Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell''s nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff''s attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell''s prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. --Amazon.com.

75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece, “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.

This title brings George Orwell''s classic satire Animal Farm together with the author''s other works exploring the nature of politics and the Second World War. His topics include: corrupt political language, the oppressive British Empire, and a wry review of Mein Kampf .

George Orwell set out ''to make political writing into an art'', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell''s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell''s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ''four great motives for writing'' – ''sheer egoism'', ''aesthetic enthusiasm'', ''historical impulse'' and ''political purpose'' – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell''s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer''s oeuvre.

Animal Farm is an Allegorical novella by George Orwell, first Published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the Fable reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Then on into the Statilinst era of the Soviet Union.

"The Spanish Civil War was the turning point in Orwell''s career. He arrived in Spain in December 1936, full of idealism and determined to defeat Fascism; he barely escaped just six months later, a bitter man on the run from the secret police. Homage to Catalonia is Orwell''s first-hand account of his time in Spain. In it, he sets out the story of the war and confronts his own naivety and the mistakes he made. The lessons Orwell learned would inform both Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The war acted as a crucible for his views, and he would spend the rest of his career denouncing lies, propaganda, and thought control. This new edition of Orwell''s seminal memoir, edited by Lisa Mullen, includes explanatory notes and an introduction placing the book in its literary and historical context." Klappentext.

This Excellent Collection brings together Orwell''s longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces. With great originality and wit Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism, from a comic yet profound discussion of naughty seaside postcards to a spirited defence of English cooking. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose, Orwell''s Books created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and continue to challenge, move and entertain. This Books created and collected in George Orwell''s Most important Works illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the XX century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. This Collection included: · 1984 · ANIMAL FARM · A CLERGYMAN''S DAUGHTER · BURMESE DAYS · COMING UP FOR AIR · DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON · HOMAGE TO CATALONIA · KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING · LOOKING BACK ON THE SPANISH WAR · THE LION AND THE UNICORN · THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER

George Orwell set out ''to make political writing into an art'', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell''s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In The Prevention of Literature, the third in the Orwell''s Essays series, Orwell considers the freedom of thought and expression. He discusses the effect of the ownership of the press on the accuracy of reports of events, and takes aim at political language, which ''consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together.'' The Prevention of Literature is a stirring cry for freedom from censorship, which Orwell says must start with the writer themselves: ''To write in plain vigorous language one has to think fearlessly.''

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." A man of vociferous opinions, George Orwell took the publishing world by storm with his works. He was ranked second in the list of ‘The 50 greatest British writers since 1945’ by The Times in 2008, and continues to remain one of the most remarkable writers of the twentieth century. This edition brings together Orwell’s three masterpieces: Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), Animal Farm (1945), and 1984 (1949). The works have never gone out of and continue to remain influential. Optimized for digital reading, this ebook offers a smooth, immersive experience on any device.

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. (Wikipedia)

George Orwell (1903-1950) es el seudónimo de Eric Arthur Blair, escritor y periodista inglés, nacido en la India y conocido mundialmente por los libros " 1984" y " The Animal Revolution". La obra es una de las novelas orwellianas más cargadas de política y quizás la más conocida de las anti utopias, además de una advertencia bellamente escrita contra los peligros del totalitarismo. 1984, junto con The Animal Revolution, es imprescindible en cualquier lista seria de los libros más importantes de todos los tiempos.

《動物庄園》（Animal Farm）亦譯作《動物農場》《動物農庄》，是英國著名作家喬治·奧威爾的重要作品，也是一部政治寓言體小說。故事描述了一場「動物主義」革命的醞釀、興起和最終畸變，於1945年首次岀版。 ◆「鯨歌英文原版」系列圖書第一輯，精選國內讀者耳熟能詳十本名著：《呼嘯山庄》《月亮和六便士》《簡·愛》《老人與海》《1984》《美麗新世界》《人性的弱點》《假如給我三天光明》《動物庄園》《飄》，以國外權威的出版社版本為參照，原版復制，精心編排，力求原汁原味還原外版圖書的風貌。 這十本書文筆優美，閱讀難度不高，非常適合有一定外語閱讀能力的讀者首次入門接觸外國小說。 喬治·奧威爾，英國著名小說家、記者和社會評論家。他的代表作《動物庄園》和《1984》是反極權主義的經典名著。他以敏銳的洞察力和犀利的文筆審視、記錄下他所生活的那個時代，並作出許多超越時代的預言，被稱為 「一代人的冷峻良知」。

Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell''s first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule Burmese Days describes corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, ''after all, natives were natives''. When Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Indian Dr Veraswami, he defies this orthodoxy. The doctor is in danger: U Po Kyin, a corrupt magistrate, is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is membership of the all-white Club, and Flory can help. Flory''s life is changed further by the arrival of beautiful Elizabeth Lackersteen from Paris, who offers an escape from loneliness and the ''lie'' of colonial life. George Orwell''s first novel, inspired by his experiences in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, Burmese Days includes a new introduction by Emma Larkin in Penguin Modern Classics.

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, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth - and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fears modern times - since, in 1939, the Second World War is imminent - foreseeing food queues, soldiers, secret police and tyranny.

Honoring the author''s mastery of the essay form, brings together such classic works as "Shooting an Elephant" with passages from his wartime diary and lesser-known journalistic pieces that weave together the personal and political in studies of his boyhood in an English boarding school and his experiences during the Spanish Civil War.