George Orwell
1) 1984
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"1984 is the story of one man's nightmare odyssey through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information, but also individual though and memory. A minor functionary named Winston Smith joins a covert brotherhood and pursues a forbidden love affair against the cold, gray backdrop of the Republic of Oceania-only to become a hunted enemy of the state . . . and of Big Brother."--back cover.
2) Animal farm
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Everyman's library volume no. 150
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"This story of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind" --publisher's website.
3) 1984
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Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
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PERO ALGUNOS ANIMALES SON MÁS IGUALES QUE OTROS». Cuando los maltratados animales de la Granja Señorial se rebelan contra su amo, el señor Jones, y toman el control de la granja, empiezan a creer con fervor en una vida de libertad e igualdad para todos. Sin embargo, poco a poco, el egocéntrico y despiadado Napoleón toma el control y los animales se ven sometidos a la opresión y la violencia de una élite corrupta: los cerdos. A medida que un...
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Dorothy, the heroine of this novel, performs good works, cultivates good thoughts, and pricks her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. She then has a series of unexpected and degrading adventures after becoming a victim of amnesia. Though she regains her life as a clergyman's daughter, she has lost her faith.
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This edition features George Orwell's best known novels – 1984 and Animal Farm – with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.
In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith joins a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in...
In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith joins a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in...
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"Burmese Days focuses on a handful of Englishmen who meet at the European Club to drink whisky and to alleviate the acute and unspoken loneliness of life in 1920s Burma—where Orwell himself served as a policeman—during the waning days of British imperialism. One of the men, James Flory, a timber merchant, has grown soft, clearly comprehending the futility of England’s rule. However, he lacks the fortitude to stand up for his Indian friend,...
8) 1984
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Winston vive aprisionado na engrenagem totalitária de uma sociedade completamente dominada pelo Estado, onde tudo é feito coletivamente, mas cada qual vive sozinho. Ninguém escapa à vigilância do Grande Irmão, a mais famosa personificação literária de um pode cínico e cruel, além de vazio de sentido histórico. De fato, a ideologia do Partido dominante não visa nada de coisa alguma para ninguém, no presente ou no futuro. O´Brien, hierarca...
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Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's brutally honest account of his experience as a militiaman during the Spanish Civil War.
In the last days of 1936, Spain was five months into a bitter civil war, in which volunteers from many countries were helping the elected government of the Spanish Republic battle a military coup led by General Francisco Franco and backed by Hitler and Mussolini. Some foreigners flocking to Spain had come for another reason:...
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George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing...
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A novel by the author of 1984 about a man determined to reject middle-class values who finds living in noble poverty more difficult than expected. Gordon Comstock despises the materialism and shallowness of middle-class life-the worship of money, the striving for dull, stuffy respectability. To live up to his ideals, he quits his lucrative position as an advertising copywriter and devotes himself to poetry and other high-minded pursuits. But low-paid...
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Essays by the author of 1984. George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected-and illuminated-the fraught times in which he lived. Facing Unpleasant Facts charts Orwell's development as a master of the narrative-essay form and unites such classics as "Shooting an Elephant" with lesser-known journalism and passages from his wartime diary. Whether detailing the...
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From the author of 1984, George Orwell narrates the journey of a writer among the down-and-out in two great cities in this sobering, truthful portrayal of poverty and society.
Famous for its realistic and unsentimental description of poverty, Down and Out in London and Paris follows the adventures of a penniless British writer who finds himself rapidly descending into the seedy heart of two great European capitals. As a dishwasher in Paris, he describes...
15) Animal Farm
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George Orwells' Animal Farm is a 1945 book about a group of animals on a farm, who organize a revolution, and take over from their human owners to run the farm themselves. Adopting the Seven Commandments of Animalism, the animals are, taught to read and write by two young pigs, Snowball, and Napoleon. As time goes on, rivalry between the two develops, which culminates in Snowball being, chased away and Napoleon becoming supreme leader. Growing more...
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A obra "A revolução dos bichos", de autoria de George Orwell, é um romance distópico que retrata uma sátira extraordinária do totalitarismo soviético. Por meio da história de uma rebelião organizada por animais contra os humanos, em uma fazenda controlada por estes, são reproduzidos os resultados nocivos da ditadura stalinista na URSS.
A revolução contra os seres humanos é um sucesso, e os animais se organizam a partir de Sete Mandamentos...
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"Keep the Aspiridistra Flying" first published in 1936, is one of George Orwell's great social criticism novels. Set in 1930s London, its main theme is the romantic ambition of Gordon Comstock to challenge the worship of the god of money and status, and the bleak life that results from it.
Although pessimistic, "Keep the Aspiridistra Flying" is not a bitter book but constantly airy and often funny, and this is due to Orwell's constant attention to...
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George Orwell foi um dos autores de língua inglesa mais aclamados do século XX. Este volume reúne uma seleção dos treze melhores ensaios e textos curtos de não ficção lavrados pelo genial autor, agrupados por tema. Eis o melhor da prosa não ficcional de um autor combativo e comprometido como poucos com as questões de seu tempo – questões que na verdade dizem respeito a aspirações universais e atemporais do ser humano, como liberdade...
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George Orwell (1903-1950) é o pseudnimo de Eric Arthur Blair, escritor e jornalista inglês, conhecido mundialmente por suas obras: A Revolução dos Bichos e 1984.
Em "Lutando na Espanha", George Orwell, narra em primeira pessoa sua experiência na Guerra Civil Espanhola. O conflito colocou partidários antifascistas contra fascistas: um prelúdio do que ocorreria na Segunda Guerra Mundial. O registro de Orwell é valioso tanto como um documento...
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La Ferme des animaux de George Orwell est une fable politique dénonçant la corruption du pouvoir et la trahison des idéaux révolutionnaires. À travers l'histoire d'animaux qui renversent leur maître humain pour instaurer une société égalitaire, Orwell critique les régimes totalitaires et leur manipulation des masses.
L'histoire débute dans la ferme de M. Jones, o les animaux, maltraités et exploités, rêvent d'un avenir meilleur. Inspirés...