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1984, a obra mais popular de George Orwell, é um impactante romance ambientado em um mundo dividido em três superestados que se mantêm constantemente em guerra. Governada pelo Grande Irmão (Big Broth

In "Animal Farm," George Orwell employs allegorical storytelling to critique totalitarianism and explore the intricacies of power dynamics, class struggle, and societal corruption. Set on a seemingly idyllic farm, the narrative follows the rebellion of the animals against their oppressive human owner, only to witness the emergence of a new tyranny. Through a straightforward yet poignant prose style, Orwell masterfully intertwines fable-like simplicity with deeply resonant political commentary, echoing the tumultuous events of the Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalinism. This book serves as a cautionary tale about the usurpation of revolutionary ideals and the ease with which noble intentions can devolve into despotism. George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair, was profoundly influenced by his experiences in colonial India and the Spanish Civil War, which fueled his commitment to social justice and opposition to authoritarian regimes. His keen observations of societal inequalities and political machinations inspired him to pen "Animal Farm" during a time when fascism and communism posed significant threats to democratic values. Orwells keen intellect and lived experiences illuminate the allegories within this literary work. Recommended for readers seeking a concise yet impactful exploration of the perils of power and betrayal of ideals, "Animal Farm" remains an essential reading not only for its historical significance but also for its timeless reflection on human nature and governance. Orwells narrative invites readers to reflect critically on their own societal structures, making it a profound commentary on the eternal struggle for freedom and equity.

Um livro para não esquecer. Um livro para despertar mentes. Uma sociedade hedionda, repugnante, desumana.1984 : NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR oferece hoje uma descrição quase realista do vastíssimo sistema de

A través de una historia intrincada, con temas como el lavado de cerebro, el lenguaje, la psicología y la inventiva encaminados al control físico y mental de todos los individuos, la educación totalitaria de la juventud, etcetera, Orwell relata la historia tragica y aparentemente emancipadora de Winston Smith y Julia, quienes tratan de escapar de un sistema donde la intimidad y el libre pensamiento estan prohibidos.

A Revolução dos Bichos, clássico texto de George Orwell, chega aos jovens leitores nesta instigante adaptação de Henrique Rodrigues e ilustrações de Adriana Cataldo. Transportada para solo brasileiro

Se mi aveste chiesto perché mi ero arruolato nella milizia avrei risposto: "Per combattere il fascismo", e se mi aveste chiesto per cosa combattevo, avrei risposto: "per il buonsenso".Nel dicembre 1936, George Orwell si arruola volontario per difendere la democrazia in Spagna. Omaggio alla Catalogna ne racconta le vicende e levoluzione del pensiero dellautore. Lavversione per ogni totalitarismo, anche di matrice comunista, che sfocera in Animal Farm e in 1984 trova un momento esperienziale proprio in questopera. Il testo, di nuova traduzione, e accompagnato da una guida sintetica - in postfazione- su fatti e personaggi narrati nel testo, utili a contestualizzare, soprattutto alle nuove generazioni, lo scenario dellazione. Segnala informazioni inesatte.

Aquesta novel·la, escrita el 1948, es un dels grans al·legats del segle XX contra el totalitarisme. En el futur hipotetic en que se situa l'acció, el món està dominat per tres grans superpotencies, t

"The Complete Works" is a collection of the 9 novels and 50 essays by George Orwell.Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.Novels included in this collection:- Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)- Burmese Days (1934)- A Clergymans Daughter (1935)- Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)- The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)- Homage to Catalonia (1938)- Coming Up for Air (1939)- Animal Farm (1945)- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls peoples 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 the Party cannot control something like love, perhaps?

George Orwell'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.' This is the opening sentence of the most influential novel of the twentieth century, in English or in any of the sixty or more other languages which boast a translation. "Nineteen Eighty-Four" has been described as chilling, absorbing, satirical, momentous, prophetic and terrifying. It is all these things, and more. Not only does the novel have a ferocious impact, it has also made an irreplaceable contribution to the language - Newspeak, Thought Police, Unperson and Doublethink are just a few of the concepts it introduced. "Nineteen Eighty-Four" proved to be Orwell's last book - the physical effort of typing up the final draft leading to his eventual collapse from the TB that had dogged his later years. He lived long enough to see it become an immediate bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic. This edition, with an introduction by the distinguished novelist Robert Harris, marks the sixtieth anniversary of this great work's publication.

AS MAIS IMPORTANTES OBRAS DO RENOMADO AUTOR REUNIDAS EM UM BOX ESPECIAL.No mundo existem pessoas que escrevem. Entre elas, existem os escritores. E entre os escritores existem aqueles que, de to relevantes, tornam-se adjetivos. Que o digam os versos shakesperianos, a prosa machadiana. Poderia George Orwell, pseudonimo de Eric Arthur Blair, prever em sua epoca o quo orwelliana seria sua propria obra?O horizonte de George Orwell reune os dois livros mais famosos do escritor britanico, A revoluço dos bichos e 1984, ambos em nova traduço de Luisa Geisler. Alem disso, acompanha um suplemento de leitura assinado por importantes nomes brasileiros como o escritor Samir Machado de Machado, o diretor de teatro Ze Henrique de Paula, a professora e pesquisadora Caroline Valada Becker, a artista e designer Paula Cruz e o jornalista e critico de cinema Roberto Sadovski.Esta ediço especial celebra um dos autores mais importantes do seculo XX, que foi testemunha ocular da guerra e do desespero, e denunciou, em sua metafora universal, os descaminhos que poderiam tornar ainda mais cinzentos os tempos vindouros. Para nossa epoca, a viso orwelliana no e uma sentença, e sim um alerta, pois aquele futuro pode mas no precisa ser o nosso presente.

"Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel", often published as "1984", is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwells ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a totalitarian superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Outer Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters into a forbidden relationship with a colleague, Julia, and starts to remember what life was like before the Party came to power.

"Fifty Essays" is a collection of 50 essays by George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic.Included in this collection:- The Spike (1931)- A Hanging (1931)- Bookshop Memories (1936)- Shooting an Elephant (1936)- Down the Mine (1937)- North and South (1937)- Spilling the Spanish Beans (1937)- Marrakech (1939)- Boys Weeklies and Frank Richardss Reply (1940)- Charles Dickens (1940)- Charles Reade (1940)- Inside the Whale (1940)- The Art of Donald McGill (1941)- The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius (1941)- Wells, Hitler and the World State (1941)- Looking Back on the Spanish War (1942)- Rudyard Kipling (1942)- Mark TwainThe Licensed Jester (1943)- Poetry and the Microphone (1943)- W B Yeats (1943)- Arthur Koestler (1944)- Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali (1944)- Raffles and Miss Blandish (1944)- Antisemitism in Britain (1945)- Freedom of the Park (1945)- Future of a Ruined Germany (1945)- Good Bad Books (1945)- In Defence Of P. G. Wodehouse (1945)- Nonsense Poetry (1945)- Notes on Nationalism (1945)- Revenge is Sour (1945)- The Sporting Spirit (1945)- You and the Atomic Bomb (1945)- A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray (1946)- A Nice Cup of Tea (1946)- Books vs. Cigarettes (1946)- Confessions of a Book Reviewer (1946)- Decline of the English Murder (1946)- How the Poor Die (1946)- James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution (1946)- Pleasure Spots (1946)- Politics and the English Language (1946)- Politics vs. Literature: an Examination of Gullivers Travels (1946)- Riding Down from Bangor (1946)- Some Thoughts on the Common Toad (1946)- The Prevention of Literature (1946)- Why I Write (1946)- Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool (1947)- Such, Such were the Joys (1947)- Writers and Leviathan (1948)- Reflections on Gandhi (1949)

"Politics and the English Language and Other Essays" is a collection of 6 essays by George Orwell.Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.Included in this collection:- Politics and the English Language- Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gullivers Travels- The Prevention of Literature- Why I Write- Writers and Leviathan- Poetry and the Microphone

"Homage to Catalonia" is George Orwells personal account of his experiences and observations fighting for the POUM militia of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. The war was one of the defining events of his political outlook and a significant part of what led him to write in 1946, "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism, as I understand it".The first edition was published in the United Kingdom in 1938. The book was not published in the United States until February 1952, when it appeared with an influential preface by Lionel Trilling. The only translation published in Orwells lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948. A French translation by Yvonne Davetwith whom Orwell corresponded, commenting on her translation and providing explanatory notesin 193839, was not published until five years after Orwells death.

Los animales de la granja deciden terminar con el dominio de los seres humanos y se toman el poder. En la nueva sociedad, todos los animales serán iguales. Pero a medida que pasa el tiempo, van apareciendo caudillos, un lider, grupos excluidos... Y bajo el mandato de las nuevas autoridades, la mayoria va perdiendo poco a poco sus derechos y la libertad.

"Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays" is a collection of 23 essays by George Orwell.Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.Included in this collection:- Why I Write- The Spike- A Hanging- Shooting an Elephant- Bookshop Memories- Charles Dickens- Boys Weeklies- My Country Right or Left- Looking Back on the Spanish War- In Defence of English Cooking- Good Bad Books- The Sporting Spirit- Nonsense Poetry- The Prevention of Literature- Books v. Cigarettes- Decline of the English Murder- Some Thoughts on the Common Toad- Confessions of a Book Reviewer- Politics v. Literature: An Examination of Gullivers Travels- How the Poor Die- Such, Such Were the Joys- Reflections on Gandhi- Politics and the English Language