1984

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell. The novel is set in Airstrip One, formerly Great Britain, a province of the superstate Oceania, whose residents are victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation. Oceania's political ideology, euphemistically named English Socialism (shortened to "Ingsoc" in Newspeak, the government's invented language that will replace English or Oldspeak) is enforced by the privileged, elite Inner Party. Via the "Thought Police", the Inner Party persecutes individualism and independent thinking, which are regarded as "thoughtcrimes".

Rebelión en la granja (1945) es un cuento satírico de George Orwell acerca de un grupo de animales en una granja que expulsan a los humanos y crean un sistema de gobierno propio que acaba convirtiéndose en tiranía. La novela fue escrita durante la segunda guerra mundial y , aunque fue publicada en 1945, no comenzó a ser conocida por el público hasta finales de los años cincuenta. Rebelión en la granja constituye una crítica velada de la Revolución Rusa y una sátira sobre la corrupción del socialismo soviético en los tiempos de Stalin.

Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell wrote the book between November 1943 and February 1944, when the UK was in its wartime alliance with the Soviet Union and the British people and intelligentsia held Stalin in high esteem. It became a great commercial success when it did appear partly because international relations were transformed as the wartime alliance gave way to the Cold War. Time magazine chose the book as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005). It also featured at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels. It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996, and is included in the Great Books of the Western World selection.

Cuando en 1936 se produjo el levantamiento armado contra la República Española y comenzó la Guerra Civil, Orwell llegó a España como periodista, pero las circunstancias le enrolaron en las milicias del POUM. Homenaje a Cataluña es la crónica de sus experiencias en el frente de Aragón y en las barricadas de la Barcelona revolucionaria.

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 memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is an account of living in near-destitution 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.

Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results.