George Orwell

Based loosely on Orwell's five years as a policeman in the Indian Imperial Police force in Burma (now Myanmar), Burmese Days is a satirical tale about the waning days of British imperialism before World War II. In 1930, Kyauktada, Upper Burma, is one of the least auspicious postings in the ailing British Empire--and then the order comes that the European Club, previously for whites only, must elect one token native member. This edict brings out the...

Dorothy, the heroine of this novel, performs good works, cultivates good thoughts, and pricks her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. She then has a series of unexpected and degrading adventures after becoming a victim of amnesia. Though she regains her life as a clergyman's daughter, she has lost her faith.

George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing...

Homage to Catalonia is both a memoir of Orwell's experience at the front in the Spanish Civil War and a tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. Down and Out in Paris and London chronicles the adventures of a penniless British writer who finds himself rapidly descending into the seedy heart of two great European cities. This edition brings together two powerful works from one of the finest writers of the twentieth century....

Over the course of his career, George Orwell wrote about many things, but no matter what he wrote the goal was to get at the fundamental truths of the world. He had no place for dissemblers, liars, conmen, or frauds, and he made his feelings well-known. In Orwell on Truth, excerpts from across Orwell's career show how his writing and worldview developed over the decades, profoundly shaped by his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, and further by...

One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentieth century, George Orwell fought the injustices of his time with singular vigour through pen and paper. In this selection of essays, he ranges from reflections on his boyhood schooling and the profession of writing to his views on the Spanish Civil War and British imperialism. The pieces collected here include the relatively unfamiliar and the more celebrated, making it an ideal compilation...

Essays by the author of 1984. 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. Facing Unpleasant Facts charts Orwell's development as a master of the narrative-essay form and unites such classics as "Shooting an Elephant" with lesser-known journalism and passages from his wartime diary. Whether detailing the...

El camino a Wigan Pier recoge una de las experiencias vitales más reveladoras para George Orwell, como individuo y como escritor. Este relato autobiográfico nace fruto del viaje que el autor británico hizo al norte de Inglaterra en 1936 –a las regiones de Lancashire y Yorkshire principalmente–, adentrándose en esta región minera, y anotando de forma científica y exhaustiva, las terribles consecuencias de la Gran Depresión de los años treinta...

Una prueba de que leer a Orwell es hoy más necesario que nunca Esta antología anfibia de ensayos demuestra que no hubo un tema que no tratara George Orwell con acierto, claridad y valentía. Revela una de sus facetas menos conocidas, la de crítico literario. Sus entrañables memorias como asistente de librería de lance conviven con sus irónicas reflexiones sobre la inflación novelística que padece la industria editorial, una discusión que,...

"Había viajado a España con el proyecto de escribir artículos periodísticos, pero ingresé en la milicia casi de inmediato, porque en esa época y en esa atmósfera parecía ser la única actitud concebible". Integrante de la delegación del International Labour Party (ILP), al que aun no estaba afiliado, y muy cercano al ideario anarquista, Orwell llegó a Cataluña en plena efervescencia revolucionaria, y, como todos los voluntarios británicos,...