1984

1984

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR [1984] (Completed)

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 manipulatio...

Rebelión en la granja

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 s...

ANIMAL FARM (Completed)

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 th...

Homenaje a Cataluña - George Orwell

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 Barcelon...

DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON (Completed)

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. ...

KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING (Completed)

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.