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George Orwell travelled to Spain in 1936 to report on the civil war but instead joined the P.O.U.M. militia to fight the Fascists. He portrays both the harsh and hilarious aspects of trench warfare on the Aragon front, the Barcelona uprising in May 1937, his nearly fatal wounds two weeks later, and his escape from Barcelona into France after the P.O.U.M. was suppressed in this now justly famous account of his ordeal. Orwell's analysis of why t...

The collected nonfiction of George Orwell, written in the clear-eyed and uncompromising style that garnered him a devoted following. George Orwell, one of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentieth century, used pen and paper to fight the injustices of his time. He covers everything from his youth schooling and the writing profession to his thoughts on the Spanish Civil War and British imperialism in this collection of art...

George Orwell é um dos escritores mais influentes do século XX. Autor de romances, ensaios, críticas e artigos acadêmicos, com texto de fácil compreensão, inteligente e crítico, apontando injustiças sociais. Suas obras transmitem antitotalitarismo, tornando-as influentes não apenas na cultura popular, mas também na política. Conheça a essência de Orwell em 1984, no pior de Paris e Londres, dentro do baleia, e outros trabalhos. Por favor, um po...

Aos 33 anos, o escritor britânico George Orwell embarcou à meia-noite de 25 de dezembro de 1936 em uma estação de trem de Paris com destino à Barcelona. Os vagões estavam cheios de voluntários europeus, que rumavam para lutar contra os fascistas na Guerra Civil Espanhola. Ao longo de seis meses, Orwell participou de treinamentos militares com adolescentes espanhóis, quase morreu de tédio nas trincheiras, atirou contra soldados franquistas, mon...

Aos 33 anos, o escritor britânico George Orwell embarcou à meia-noite de 25 de dezembro de 1936 em uma estação de trem de Paris com destino à Barcelona. Os vagões estavam cheios de voluntários europeus, que rumavam para lutar contra os fascistas na Guerra Civil Espanhola. Ao longo de seis meses, Orwell participou de treinamentos militares com adolescentes espanhóis, quase morreu de tédio nas trincheiras, atirou contra soldados franquistas, mon...

Um dos ensaístas mais vibrantes e instigantes do século XX, George Orwell lutou contra as injustiças de seu tempo com singular vigor através da caneta e do papel. Nesta seleção de ensaios, ele vai desde reflexões sobre sua educação de menino e a profissão de escritor até suas opiniões sobre a Guerra Civil espanhola e o imperialismo britânico. As peças aqui reunidas incluem algumas relativamente desconhecidas e outras mais célebres. A pergunta...

George Orwell's article "Politics and the English Language" (1946) criticises the "ugly and incorrect" written English of his period and investigates the link between political orthodoxies and linguistic debasement. The article focuses on political language, which is "intended to make falsehoods sound true and murder acceptable, and to give the illusion of solidity to pure wind, " according to Orwell. Because the language was intended to obsc...

A novel by the author of 1984 about a man who is determined to reject middle-class standards but finds that living in heroic poverty is more difficult than he anticipated. Gordon Comstock despises middle-class materialism and shallowness-the worship of money, the pursuit of dull, stuffy respectability. He quits his lucrative job as an advertising copywriter to devote himself to poetry and other high-minded endeavours in order to live up to his...

George Orwell describes a grey, totalitarian world ruled by Big Brother and his enormous network of agents, including the Thought Police a world where news is fabricated according to the authorities' wishes and people live lukewarm lives by rote.Winston Smith, a hero who lacks heroic attributes, merely wants truth and decency. But he understands there is no chance for him because he lives in a society where privacy is nonexistent and individua...

Shooting an Elephant' is George Orwell's harrowing and excruciatingly honest account of his time as a police officer in imperial Burma, where he was forced to kill a fugitive elephant in front of a crowd'solely to avoid looking a fool.' Classics like 'My Country Right or Left, ' 'How the Poor Die, ' and 'Such, Such were the Joys, ' his memoir of the horrors of public school, as well as discussions of Shakespeare, sleeping rough, boys' weeklies...

The famous satire of the Russian Revolution by George Orwell is such a part of our present society that we often forget who wrote the original lines. It's the storey of how Mr. Jones' Manor Farm is transformed into Animal Farm, a totally democratic society founded on the belief that All Animals Are Created Equal. In a slow evolution that bears an unsettling familiarity, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new com...

Na Pior em Paris e Londres, é um livro de memórias do período mais marcante da vida do George Orwell e a sua primeira obra. Depois de trabalhar como policial do Império Britânico na Birmânia, George Orwell resolveu saber como era a vida, o modo de ser e de pensar da população pobre e foi viver como um deles. Orwell viveu na mendicância por um bom tempo antes de conseguir trabalho como lavador de pratos em um hotel e todas as experiências vivi...

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