Drawn from a cache of materials unearthed in the archives of the BBC, this collection features hundreds of essays, dramatic adaptations, and letters written during Orwell's World War II years at the BBC.
As the title suggests, and as his most celebrated novels make plain, George Orwell built a career and a worldview around confronting atrocities. From reflections on his miserable childhood experiences in a British boarding school to his luc...
ANIMAL FARM, Orwell's 1945 fable about the power struggles among animals on a farm, parallels the situation in Russia at the time as Orwell saw it; the characters include the ruthless pig Stalin, his idealistic Trotsky-like adversary, and t...
George Orwell eloquently evokes the lives of poor miners and laborers in the north of England during the 1930s. As always, Orwell is violently critical of the English class structure, and dedicated to the concept of socialism as a cure for ...
Subtitle: Homenaje a Cataluna y otros escritos sobre la guerra civil espanola/ The Full Text of Homage to Catalonia, with associated articles, reviews and lette
As the title suggests, and as his most celebrated novels make plain, George Orwell built a career and a worldview around confronting atrocities. From reflections on his miserable childhood experiences in a British boarding school to his luc...
In the 1930s and '40s, before his greatest novels, 1984 and ANIMAL FARM, made him famous, George Orwell was already writing with intense focus and clarity about the relationship between art and politics. This wide-ranging collection of his ...
Orwell wrote this novel after his experiences in Burma, where, instead of going to university, he served for five years working for the British government as a member of the Indian Imperial Police--a post he resigned because he felt he coul...
George Orwell's celebrated and always timely 1948 vision of a world subsumed in tyranny and war describes the process of events by which Winston Smith, a London clerk at the Ministry of Truth, comes to understand the true nature and aims of...
Set just before World War II begins, Orwell's novel tells the story of a very ordinary suburban Englishman, George "Fatty" Bowling, who wins money at the races and changes his life by delving into his past.
George Orwell vividly and movingly details his experience of appalling poverty and hardship while he struggles to become a writer. Orwell spent nearly two years toiling in the revolting kitchens of the chic Hotel Lotti on the Rue de Rivoli ...
Orwell's 1945 fable about the power struggles among animals on a farm parallels the situation in Russia at the time as Orwell saw it; the characters include the ruthless pig Stalin, his idealistic Trotsky-like adversary, and the simple, kin...
George Orwell vividly and movingly details his experience of appalling poverty and hardship while he struggles to become a writer. Orwell spent nearly two years toiling in the revolting kitchens of the chic Hotel Lotti on the Rue de Rivoli ...
A spoken-word audio title combines two of the author's classic stories, Animal Farm, in which the animals, led by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, drive out Farmer Jones and set up an Animals' Republic in which all are to be free and equal, ...