George Orwell

Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes....

Published in the summer of 1949, George Orwell’s 1984 is one of the most definitive texts of modern literature....

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them starts to take control....

What happens when ill-treated farm animals gang up to throw out their lazy, corrupt and power-drunk rulers? Animal Farm is born....

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith.

A wide-ranging selection of George Orwell's essays, written in the clear-eyed, passionate and uncompromising style that has earned him a reputation as one of Britain's greatest writers....

Now an animated film adaptation produced and directed by Andy Serkis George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable. The animals of Mr...

Full-cast dramatisations of six masterpieces from the founding fathers of dystopian fiction Dark and disturbing, provocative and prescient, dystopian literature has long captured our imagination with its nightmarish visions of forbidding future worlds. Included here are six classic novels of...

This collection brings together some of the most influential and beloved novels in the English literary canon. From dystopian futures to sweeping romantic tales, these works explore human nature, social class, morality, and the quest for identity.

È il 1984, e la vita è cambiata al punto da essere irriconoscibile. Pista Uno, un tempo conosciuta come Gran Bretagna, è ora un luogo in cui il Grande Fratello osserva tutto ininterrottamente, e nessuno sfugge al suo sguardo. Nessuno, eccetto forse Winston Smith.

Reflections on Gandhi sees Orwell grapple with Gandhi’s principal of non-violence, or Satyagraha ('holding on to the truth'), as a political tool....

One of the most celebrated classics of the twentieth century, this cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state is more relevant now than ever before. “Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for...

1984 spielt in einer Welt, in der ein totalitärer Überwachungsstaat das Leben der Menschen bis ins Letzte bestimmt und die Wahrheit beliebig definiert werden kann.

Winston Smith lebt im totalitären Staat Ozeanien, wo das allmächtige Regime jede Handlung, jedes Wort und jeden Gedanken kontrolliert. Als er beginnt, an der offiziellen Wahrheit zu zweifeln – und sich verliebt –, wird sein Leben zu einem Kampf gegen ein System, das keine Freiheit duldet.

"Review of Adolph Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'" is an essay of George Orwell. "Mein Kampf" ("My Struggle" or "My Fight") is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler.

Da era da uniformidade. Da era da solidão e do bipensamento. Da era do Grande Irmão. De mim, Winston Smith. Saudações. É 1984, e a vida está irreconhecível....

Darin versucht Orwell ein Gesellschaftsmodell zu skizzieren, das es selbst als „demokratischen Sozialismus" bezeichnet, in welchem Schablonendenken innerhalb der überholten Links-Rechts-Symbolik keine Rolle mehr spielt und jeder Bürger unabhängig von Begleitumständen seiner Geburt die gleichen Chanc

Depuis l'ère de l’uniformité. Depuis l’ère de la solitude et de la doublepensée. Depuis l’ère de Big Brother… Moi, Winston Smith. Je vous salue…

Four modern masterpieces that dared to push boundaries and disrupt the status quo Deviant. Depraved. Dangerous. Denounced for their transgressive themes and inflammatory ideas, these 20th-century classics have all been considered so seditious that they had to be suppressed. Find out what made...

Shooting an Elephant describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma....