Complete Novels of George Orwell
George Orwell's best-known novels, Animal Farm, describing a revolution that goes horribly wrong, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, portraying a world where human freedom has been crushed, are two of the most famous, well-quoted and influential political satires ever written. The other novels in this volume also tell stories of people at odds with repressive institutions: the corrupt imperialism of Burmese Days, disaffection with materialistic society in Keep the Aspidistra Flying, the perils of modern suburban living in Coming Up for Air and surviving on the streets in A Clergyman's Daughter.
All the novels brought together here display Orwell's humour, his understanding of human nature and his great compassion.
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Fascism and Democracy
'The feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world ... this prospect frightens me much more than bombs'
On the 70th anniversary of George Orwell's death, a new collection of his brilliant essays written during the Second World War
Fascism and Democracy collects five brilliant examples of Orwell's writing during the darkest days of World War Two. Grappling with the principles of democracy and the potential of reform, the meaning of literature and free speech in times of violence, and the sustainability of objective truth, Orwell offers a compelling portrayal of a nation where norms and ideals can no longer be taken for granted. Like the best of Orwell's writing, these essays also serve as timeless reminders of the fragility of freedom.
Penguin Readers Level 3: Animal Farm
Animal Farm tells the story of a rebellion and how it goes wrong. The animals' lives on the farm are terrible - there is not enough food, the work is hard, and animals are dying. One day, the animals kick out the farmer and start to run the farm.
Soon, a group of animals - the pigs - becomes more and more important, but things are not better for most of the animals. Life for them is the same as before. Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language.
Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activitiesthat help readers to develop key skills.
Penguin Readers Level 7: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Winston Smith re-writes history for the Ministry of Truth in Oceania. Big Brother and the Thought Police watch everyone for signs of Thought Crime. But when Winston falls in love with Julia, he begins to have new ideas and hopes.
Winston and Julia start to question the world that they live in - but Big Brother does not like independent thought. Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House.
The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activitiesthat help readers to develop key skills.
Animal Farm / Állatfarm
Mert az egyenlők között is vannak még egyenlőbbek. Orwell klasszikusa angolul és magyarul arról, hogy a szép eszmék és a megvalósulásuk között mekkora űr tátong. "Nem kristálytiszta hát, elvtársak, hogy életünk minden baja az Ember zsarnokságából fakad? Csak az Embertől kell megszabadulnunk, és miénk lesz, amit a munkánk hoz." Orwell 1943-44-es "Tündérmeséjének" első lapjain e szavakkal lelkesíti Őrnagy, a díjnyertes fehér kandisznó Jones gazda farmjának sokat szenvedett állatait. Hogy aztán az egyenlők között is lesznek még egyenlőbbek, hogy a szép eszmék és a megvalósulásuk között mekkora űr tátong, azt nemcsak a kisregényből, de a történelemből is jól tudjuk. A kétnyelvű kiadás az angol és a magyar változatot is tartalmazza.
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Rádiós jegyzetek / Londoni levelek
"A japán kapituláció híre tegnap dél tájban ért ide, amikor épp a Fleet Streeten jártam. Az utcákon örömujjongás tört ki, s az emeleti irodákban nyomban elkezdték fecnikbe szaggatni, majd az ablakon át kiszórni a régi újságokat. A rádiót hallgatva mindenkinek egyszerre jutott eszébe, hogy így tegyen, s emiatt a buszunk néhány mérföldön át valóságos papíresőben haladt, az újságfecnik csillogón szálldostak alá a napfényben és bokáig beterítették a járdát. Mindez, nem tagadom, engem még bosszantott is kicsit, hisz akkor, amikor könyvekre nincs elég papír, lám, más léhaságokra bőséggel akad. Így a brit hadügyminisztérium ma egymaga több papírt használ el, mint az egész hazai könyvkiadás."
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1984 + 2 CD
Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people’s lives every second of the day. Alone in his small, one-room apartment, Winston dreams of a better life. Is freedom from this life of suffering possible? There must be something that t
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Road to Wigan Pier
A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain.
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1984
Üdvözlet az egyformaság korából, a magányosság korából, a Nagy Testvér korából, a duplagondol korából írja a naplójába Winston Smith, a lázadó, a gondolatbűnöző, aki nem hajlandó elismerni, hogy a 2x2 a Párt akarata szerint lehet három vagy öt. Talán valóban csak keserű üdvözlet lesz ez a regény a jövőben, örök emlékeztető a totalitárius XX. századra, és persze szellemes szatíra, mint a nagy példakép, Swift Gulliver-e. Talán De most még a zsigereinkben érezzük, mit jelent a Nagy Testvér, a gondolatbűn, a gondolatrendőrség, az újbeszél, a duplagondol; s az óceániai Párt három jelmondata is hátborzongatóan ismerős:
A háború: Béke
A szabadság: Szolgaság
A tudatlanság: Erő
S bár sok mindent be tudunk helyettesíteni a történelem valós alakjaival, eszméivel, intézményeivel, ebben a regényben mégis az írói fantázia a leglenyűgözőbb; 1948-ban, betegen, kiábrándultan Orwell olyan regényvilágot alkotott, amely borzongató realitásával rabul ejti az olvasót akkor is, ha közben könnyedén talán túlságosan is könnyedén azt mondja: Orwell jóslata, hála istennek, nem teljesedett be.
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1984 - Helikon zsebkönyvek 84.
Hogy Orwellnek ez a kevéssel a II. világháború vége után született regénye milyen "veszélyes" mű, már abból a tényből is látszik, hogy Magyarországon a rendszerváltásig kizárólag szamizdat formában volt hozzáférhető, s első legális kiadását csak 1989-ben vehették kézbe a hazai olvasók. A XX. század totalitárius államai és a hidegháború paranoiája ihlette műből egy olyan jövőkép rajzolódik ki, melyben a mindenható Párt folyamatosan újraírja a történelmet, és a hagyományos angol nyelv lerombolásával, illetve a "káros" gondolatok megszületését lehetetlenné tevő újbeszél kidolgozásával a polgárok gondolkodását is korlátok közé szorítja. A szerző nevét világszerte ismertté tevő disztópia számos mondata vagy mozzanata az egyetemes kultúra részévé vált, Big Brother alakja pedig még a show-bizniszben is felbukkant...
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Animal Farm
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell's fable of revolutionary farm animals - the steadfast horses Boxer and Clover, the opportunistic pigs Snowball and Napoleon, and the deafening choir of sheep - who overthrow their elitist human master only to find themselves subject to a new authority, is one of the most famous warnings ever written.
Rejected by such eminent publishing figures as Victor Gollancz, Jonathan Cape and T.S. Eliot due to its daringly open criticism of Stalin, Animal Farm was published to great acclaim by Martin Secker and Warburg on 17 August 1945. One reviewer wrote 'In a hundred years' time perhaps Animal Farm ... may simply be a fairy story: today it is a fairy story with a good deal of point.'
Seventy-five years since its first publication, Orwell's immortal satire remains an unparalleled masterpiece and more relevant than ever.
The Authoritative Text. With an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.
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Down and Out in Paris and London
You can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how. But it is a complicated business.
When he was a struggling writer in his twenties, George Orwell lived as a down-and-out among the poorest members of society. In this early memoir, he recounts shocking experiences working as a penniless dishwasher in Paris, pawning clothes to buy a day's worth of bread and wine, sleeping in bug-infested bunks, trading survival skills and cigarette butts with fellow tramps, and trudging between London's workhouse spikes for a few hours' sleep and tea-and-two-slices.
With sensitivity and compassion, Orwell exposed the hardships of poverty and gave readers an unprecedented look at life lived on the fringes of society. His vivid account is an enduring call to support the world's most vulnerable people and exemplifies his belief that 'The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.'
The Authoritative Text. With a new introduction by Kerry Hudson.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
The year is 1984, and life in Oceania is ruled by the Party. Under the gaze of Big Brother, Winston Smith yearns for intimacy and love - "thought crimes" that, if uncovered, would mean imprisonment, or death. But Winston is not alone in his defiance, and an illicit affair will draw him into the mysterious Brotherhood and the realities of resistance.
Nineteen Eighty-Four has been described as chilling, absorbing, satirical, momentous, prophetic and terrifying. It is all these things, and more.
The Authoritative Text. With an introduction by Robert Harris.
Orwell and Politics
Including Animal Farm'Orwell is the most influential political writer of the twentieth century' New York Review of BooksThroughout his life George Orwell aimed, in his words, to make 'political writing into an art'. This collection brings together the best of his matchless political essays and journalism with his timeless satire on totalitarianism, Animal Farm. It includes articles on subjects from the corruption of language to the oppressive British Empire; his masterly wartime Socialist polemic, 'The Lion and the Unicorn'; a wry review of Mein Kampf; a defence of Nineteen Eighty-Four; and extracts from his controversial list of 'Crypto-Communists'.
Together these works demonstrate Orwell's commitment to telling the truth, however unpalatable, and doing so with artistry and humanity. Edited by Peter Davison with an Introduction by Timothy Garton Ash
Orwell and the Dispossessed
Including Down and Out in Paris and London'Orwell was the great moral force of his age' SpectatorThe powerful writings collected together in this volume chronicle George Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the 'two nations' of rich and poor. Down and Out in Paris and London is the young Orwell's memoir of his time as a struggling, often penniless writer, living among the destitute and dispossessed, in which he exposes what 'going to the dogs' is really like. There are also articles and letters on sleeping rough in Trafalgar Square, being arrested for drunkenness, on the poverty Orwell witnessed in Morocco and India, and his shocking essay, 'How the Poor Die'.
Edited by Peter Davison with an Introduction by Peter Clarke
