George Orwell

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers,...

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge...

Years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling. This and fear of another war take his mind back to the peace of his childhood in a small country town. But his return journey to Lower Binfield brings complete disillusionment....

Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives -- interesting, no doubt, but finally only a 'subject' people, an inferior people with black faces'.Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends...

'It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine', wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945. Orwell wrote it at the end of 1943, but it almost remained unpublished. Its savage attack on Stalin, at that time Britain's...

Piękna powieść opowiadająca o zmierzchłych czasach kolonializmu. Jej trwałą wartością pozostaje obraz dalekiego, egzotycznego kraju o starej kulturze i tradycji, obcego i niezrozumiałego dla garstki białych pracowników małej placówki w dżungli, zmuszonych do życia w zabójczym klimacie, w całkowitej izolacji, pozbawionych widoków na przyszłość....