George Orwell

1984 er en fremtidsroman av George Orwell som ble utgitt i 1949. Boken er en dyster spådom om hvordan fremtiden kan bli, med et totalitært system der praktisk talt ingen individuelle rettigheter finnes. Denne boken ble skrevet i skyggen av annen verdenskrig med inspirasjon fra blant annet det nasjonalsosialistiske …

Kamerat Napoleon er en satirisk, allegorisk roman av den engelske forfatteren George Orwell, først utgitt 1945. Handlingen er lagt til gården «Manor Farm» der dyrene tar makten fra menneskene og begynner å drive gården på sine egne premisser. Boken er en åpenbar kritikk av stalinismen i Sovjetunionen fra et marxistisk …

Down and Out in Paris and London is a sharp social analysis of what he saw in Paris and in London. In this novel Orwell describes in vigorous passion, poverty, degrading work and unemployment while telling the story of his adventures like his search for work, his job as a dishwasher, his retrun to England, tramping in …

Homage to Catalonia, kalt Hyllest til Catalonia på norsk, er en bok fra 1938 av George Orwell som handler om opplevelser forfatteren hadde under den spanske borgerkrigen. På slutten av året 1936 kom Orwell som avisreporter til Barcelona, for å skrive reportasjer om den spanske borgerkrigen. Bevisst på den …

Burmese Days is a novel by British writer George Orwell. It was first published in the UK in 1934. It is a tale from the waning days of British colonialism, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as a part of British India – "a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj." At its centre is John Flory, "the lone and lacking …

The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the British writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions among the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II. The second half …

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, …

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 …

"Why I Write" is an essay by George Orwell detailing his personal journey to becoming a writer. It was first published in the Summer 1946 edition of Gangrel. The editors of this magazine, J.B.Pick and Charles Neil, had asked a selection of writers to explain why they wrote. The essay offers a type of …