George Orwell

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. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George Packer in his foreword, "it was as natural for Orwell to propose, …

A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia. It is Orwell's most formally experimental novel, featuring a chapter written entirely in dramatic …

Farma zvířat je alegorický satirizující román George Orwella, ukazující formou bajky politické vztahy a děje mezi lidmi. Autor se důsledně vyhýbá vysvětlujícím komentářům, ale vzhledem k době napsání díla je nejzjevnější podobenství se stalinskou degenerací Sovětského svazu. V příběhu se objevuje skupinka zvířat, …

Fighting in Spain is a book by George Orwell.

'This selection is a ceaseless delight ... there is a treat on almost every page' Daily TelegraphGeorge Orwell wrote, in his words, from 'a desire to see things as they are'. This new collection of his journalism and other writings, including articles, essays, broadcasts, poems, book and film reviews from across his …