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Uma das obras mais importantes da literatura mundial, 1984 foi publicada em 1949, num momento onde a Europa destruída pela Segunda Guerra Mundial enfrentava o desespero da reconstrução e o surgimento de duas novas potências mundiais, os EUA e a Rússia, que representavam o que Orwell começou a chamar de Guerra Fria. Num texto impactante, descrevendo uma sociedade distópica cinzenta dominada por um grupo de privilegiados que não permitiam a liberdade de expressão, e cujo representante maior nunca visto pessoalmente era o "Big Brother".

In this essay, Orwell discusses the notion of nationalism and argues that it causes people to disregard common sense and become more ignorant towards factuality. Orwell shows his concern for the social state of Europe, and in a broader sense, the entire world, due to an increasing amount of influence of nationalistic sentiment occurring throughout a large number of countries.

During The Blitz of 1941, as Nazi bombers flew overhead, George Orwell penned this stirring analysis of England and its people. Whilst not shying away from the difficulties of the nation, and the fractuous nature of its divisions, Orwell places a premium on the country's ability to come together in a time of crisis and protect its democratic values, even in the most dire of circumstances.

Winston Smith, ein einfaches Mitglied der diktatorischen Staatspartei, arbeitet im Ministerium für Wahrheit, wo er die Vergangenheit im Sinne der Regierung umschreibt. "Der große Bruder" überwacht alle Bürger, jeder Widerstand gegen das System wird streng bestraft. Winston jedoch sehnt sich in seinem Innersten nach echter Wahrheit - und nach Liebe. Trotz aller Verbote beginnt er eine Beziehung mit seiner Kollegin Julia und träumt sogar davon, sich gegen die Partei aufzulehnen. Doch aus dem Überwachungsstaat gibt es kein Entkommen.

'Decline of the English Murder' analyses the kinds of murders depicted in popular media during Orwell's life and why society of the time was obsessed with these grizzly crimes. Tribune published it on 15th February 1946, and Secker and Warburg republished it after his death in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays in 1952.

Published a mere two and a half months after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Orwell’s 'You and the Atomic Bomb' is notable as one of the first efforts to divine the social and political implications of a new weapon of previously unimaginable power. Its fame arises from Orwell’s coinage of a new term for the permanent standoff the bomb would foster between two great powers, the United States and the Soviet Union: the 'cold war'.

Books v Cigarettes is a funny and irreverent essay comparing the costs of reading to other forms of recreation including smoking. Originating from the experience of an editor friend who was firewatching during the Second World War, who was told by factory workers that they had no interest in literature because they could not afford books, the essay first appeared in Tribune in 1946.

Die wirkmächtigste politische Fabel der Literaturgeschichte - gelesen von Christoph Maria Herbst. Die Tiere auf dem Hof des Säufers Mr. Jones leiden unter seinem gewalttätigen Regiment. Aber genug ist genug! Die intelligenten Schweine arbeiten ein Programm für die Befreiung vom menschlichen Unterdrücker aus. Die Rebellion ist erfolgreich. Doch selbst die, die sich aus der Unterdrückung befreien, können zu Unterdrückern werden - und bald schon leiden die Tiere unter der Diktatur der Schweine.

In A Clergyman’s Daughter, George Orwell, author of the dystopian classics Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, turns his attention to 1930s England and the life of the much put-upon daughter of a country rector. Dorothy Hare lives in genteel poverty, sacrificing herself to the whims of her spendthrift father and the demands of her community and church. She is sustained only by her strong, Christian faith as she spends her days dodging debt collectors, ministering to the poor and avoiding the attentions of the local lothario, Mr Warburton.

Pubblicato nel 1949, il libro offre la visione da incubo del satirista politico George Orwell di un mondo totalitario e burocratico e il tentativo di un povero uomo di trovare l'individualità. Il genio del romanzo è la presenza di Orwell nella vita moderna - l'ubiquità della televisione, la distorsione del linguaggio - e la sua capacità di costruire una versione così completa dell'inferno. Lettura obbligatoria per gli studenti da quando è stata pubblicata, si colloca tra i romanzi più terrificanti mai scritti.

In Oceania, one of three totalitarian states that rule the world, Big Brother is watching. The Thought Police are listening. Reality is defined by the Party. And in London, at the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith’s job is to rewrite history. His dream, however, is to rebel. Winston is beginning to think for himself. In defiance of the State, he falls into a criminal love affair with his coworker Julia. But it isn’t until he joins the Brotherhood, an underground network of revolutionaries, that Winston discovers how high the cost of freedom may be. 

Looking Back on the Spanish War contains George Orwell's reminiscences of the sights, smells and politics of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) in which he almost lost his life.

Nell'anno 1984 immaginato da George Orwell, il pianeta è governato da tre giganteschi supercontinenti: Oceania, Eurasia ed Estasia, perennemente in guerra tra loro. Winston Smith, il protagonista del romanzo, vive a Londra, città compresa nell'Oceania. È il Grande Fratello il potente e infallibile dittatore e capo supremo di quel continente, nessuno lo ha mai visto di persona ma i suoi giganteschi manifesti incombono su ogni strada e piazza.

George Orwells düstere Vision erstmals im Hörspiel: "Big brother is watching you". Das einfache Parteimitglied Winston Smith widersetzt sich der totalen Herrschaft des Staates Ozeanien. Zu spät erkennt er, dass er immer nur ein Spielball der Mächtigen war. Die berühmteste Dystopie der Weltliteratur ist in Zeiten von digitaler Dauerüberwachung und aufkeimendem Totalitarismus aktueller denn je.

Published in the summer of 1949, George Orwell’s 1984 is one of the most definitive texts of modern literature. Set in Oceania, one of the three intercontinental super states that divided the world amongst themselves after a global war, Orwell’s masterful critique of the political structures of the time, works itself out through the story of Winston Smith, a man caught in the webs of a dystopian future, and his clandestine love affair with Julia, a young woman he meets during the course of his work for the government.

After years of exploitation, neglect, and despair, the animals of Manor Farm revolt. They drive owner Mr. Jones off the land and rechristen the property Animal Farm, a utopia of equality and mutual support. But Napoleon, a young boar who assumes command after the rebellion, is hungry for power. And as the pigs consolidate control, all the good intentions of Animal Farm are crushed by a new and inevitable tyranny. 

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. Because the locals expect him to do the job, he does so against his better judgment, his anguish increased by the elephant's slow and painful death. The story is regarded as a metaphor for colonialism as a whole, and for Orwell's view that 'when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys'.

La satira classica della rivoluzione russa di George Orwell è una parte intima della nostra cultura contemporanea, citata così spesso che tendiamo a dimenticare chi ha scritto le parole originali. È un resoconto della coraggiosa lotta che trasforma la fattoria terriera del signor Jones in fattoria degli animali, una società interamente democratica costruita sul credo che tutti gli animali sono creati uguali. Per intelligenza, i maiali Napoleone, Squealer e Palla di neve emergono come leader della nuova comunità in una sottile evoluzione che porta una insidiosa familiarità.

Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on August 17, 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, now under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon. According to Orwell, the fable reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union.

Quando gli animali oppressi e sfruttati della Fattoria "Il Maniero" si ribellano al padrone e s'impossessano della tenuta, a guidarli è la speranza di dare inizio a una nuova società più libera e giusta. Ma a poco a poco una nuova élite brutale e prepotente, capeggiata dai maiali Snowball e Napoleon, assume il controllo della fattoria. Ben presto gli animali scoprono di non essere tutti uguali come credevano, e si ritrovano intrappolati in un'altra forma di tirannia.