George Orwell

George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life with extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity. “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.

1984

A satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government

A Fairy Story

Animal Farm

a novel

Down and out in Paris and London

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Why I Write

Homage to Catalonia

Burmese Days

Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic, from freedom of the press to what patriotism really means.

Books V. Cigarettes

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Shooting an Elephant

Keep the aspidistra flying

عبد الغني، محمود

Persiflage op het dictatorschap en de totalitaire staat, waarin vooral de draak wordt gestoken met het Russische communisme.

رواية

مزرعة الحيوان

The Road to Wigan Pier is Orwell's 1937 study of poverty and working-class life in northern England.

The Road to Wigan Pier

Coming up for air

De dierenboerderij. - Persiflage op het dictatorschap en de totalitaire staat, waarin vooral de draak wordt gestoken met het Russische communisme.

riwāya

Mazraʻt al-ḥayawānāt

bir peri masalı

Hayvan çiftliği

Heitor Aquino Ferreira

'A revolução dos bichos' é uma fábula sobre o poder que se propõe a narrar a insurreição dos animais de uma granja contra seus donos. Progressivamente, porém, a revolução degenera numa tirania ainda mais opressiva que a dos humanos.

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A revolução dos bichos

The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs' Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote about his nation better than anyone.

Notes on Nationalism

'The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's reals and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.'

Politics and the English Language

Mil Novecentos E Oitenta E Quatro

Yıl 1984. Londra’da yalnız başına yaşayan bir adam olan Winston Smith gerçekte kudretli Parti’nin ve Büyük Birader’in yönettiği acımasız diktatörlükten bir kaçış yolu bulmaya çalışan bir asidir. Winston artık yasadışı sayılan özgürlüğü, barışı ve sevgiyi aramaktadır aslında. Bu itaatsizliği hayatına mal olacak olsa da kararlıdır. Bu yüzden de gerçeği ve insanlığı bir zamanlar bildiği şekilde bulma çabasında her şeyi riske atar. Winston’un macerası bir yandan da insan doğasının en karanlık yönlerine karşı savaşan insan ruhunun gücünün öyküsüdür.

George Packer

Offering commentary on the worlds of film, drama, literature, and language, a collection of criticism and essays by the author of 1984 includes such pieces as "Politics and the English Language," "Rudyard Kipling," and "Good Bad Books."

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