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It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine". So wrote George Orwell in the original blurb for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. His simple and tragic fable, describes what happens when the animals drive out Mr Jones, the farmer, and attempt to run the Manor Farm themselves.Animal Farm has become a world-famous classic of English prose, and is a strong political allegory with parallels to the old Soviet regime.Reader Simon Callow is a British actor with a firmly-established reputation for impeccable performance on-stage, on-screen, and on audiobook.

EDIZIONE REVISIONATA 14/08/2024.Fiorira laspidistra (Keep the Aspidistra Flying, 1936) e ambientato nella Londra degli anni Trenta. Il protagonista e Gordon Comstock, poeta alle prese con laspro conflitto tra realta e vita dedicata allarte. Dopo aver lasciato un buon posto in unagenzia pubblicitaria, accetta un lavoro da commesso in una libreria. Figlio della piccola borghesia inglese, si ribella alla morale della sua classe che lo vorrebbe individuo rispettabile e, appunto, con un buon posto di lavoro. Il suo vero nemico, pero, e il denaro, che diventera una vera ossessione. La lotta e gli ideali di Gordon lo porteranno verso una vita misera e sporca, che lui stesso sentira come propria, nonostante lamore e il sostegno della fidanzata Rosemary e dellamico Philip Ravelston, ricco e sensibile direttore di una rivista letteraria. Il simbolo della mediocrita e della rispettabilita borghese e la pianta di aspidistra. Gordon ne possiede una, che maltratta nel tentativo di farla morire. Laspidistra e tenace e lo perseguitera in ogni luogo, come una nuvola nera che lo segue sopra la testa. Si crogiola nella propria vita misera fino a quando un evento inaspettato gli sconvolge lesistenza. Rivalutera, quindi, i propri ideali? Accettera le nuove prospettive?

Considerado um dos maiores escritores do séc. XX, de forte relevância até os dias de hoje, o que pode ser comprovado pelo fato de nunca sair da lista de livros mais vendidos pelo mundo, George Orwell

The distopic, prophetic masterpiece by George Orwell.

"1984 - the novel marking the end of communism." George Orwells 1984 revolves around Winston Smith, an office worker who performs censorship duties in Oceanias Ministry of Truth as a small cog in the wheel of a monstrous state apparatus. For years, doubts have been gnawing at him about the legitimacy of the system in which even a blink of the eye can cost him his life. The novel begins with the first step towards putting this initially purely intellectual resistance into action: Winston opens a diary. He subsequently falls in love with a young female colleague, and together they begin a love affair that, in the dictatorship that invades every aspect of life, is in itself an act of high treason. Even though they have different views on the society they live in, they are united by the rejection of its narrow moral corset and the desire for individual freedom and, not least, a right to love and feel. While Winston understands HOW the machinery of tyranny works, he does not understand WHY the massive effort of its surveillance and repressive apparatus is undertaken. When they decide to seek contact with the underground opposition and eventually end up in the hands of the repression apparatus of the state, Winston learns the true background of Oceanias society. Until his death, George Orwell was a convinced socialist - all the greater was the effect his work, published in 1949, had on the political left of the time. On the political left, the Soviet Union was seen as the realisation of Marxs ideas, the workers paradise that would free the enslaved masses from their shackles. Orwell was one of the few leftists of his time who dared to shake this narrative. Under the impression of the undeniable terror of Stalinist rule and its cynical, opportunistic cooperation with fascist and capitalist foreign countries, he criticised the hypocrisy and inhumanities of the real communism with Animal Farm and 1984. George Orwell - Animal Farm Animal Farm is a dystopian fable by George Orwell, published in 1945, about the uprising of the animals of an English farm against the rule of their human owner, who neglects and exploits them. After initial successes and incipient prosperity, the pigs increasingly take over and eventually establish a tyranny worse than the one the animals tried to shake off. While the majority of the political left of the 1940s still regarded the Soviet Union as the realisation of Karl Marxs ideas, George Orwells bestseller breaks with this view by very humorously depicting the development of Russia or the Soviet Union from the late reign of Tsar Nicholas II to post-war Stalinism in the form of this modern fable.