조지 오웰

《1984년》은 1949년 출판된 조지 오웰의 디스토피아 소설이다. 1984년을 전체주의가 극도화된 사회로 상정하고 쓴 미래 소설이다. 올더스 헉슬리의 《멋진 신세계》와 더불어 이후 디스토피아를 다룬 대부분의 예술작품에 영향을 준 원형적인 작품으로 62개 이상의 언어로 번역되었다. 이 소설 이후 사회 시스템에 의문을 제기하는 사람들을 '오웰적'이라고 부르게 될 정도로 파급력을 가졌다. 작품의 제목인 1984는 작가가 작품을 쓰기 시작한 1948년의 뒷자리 년도를 뒤집은 …

《동물 농장》은 영국의 작가 조지 오웰이 1945년에 출판한 풍자 소설이다. 표면적인 내용은 한 농장에 살던 동물들이 주인을 쫓아내고 직접 농장을 운영하지만, 결국은 부패하게 된다는 이야기이다.

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 …

카탈루냐 찬가는 조지 오웰의 소설이다. 스페인 내전당시 조지 오웰 직접 공화파 의용군으로 참전하여 겪은 내전을 생생하게 묘사하여 높이 평가받고 있는 작품으로 권력 투쟁의 환멸을 사실감 있게 그려내고 있다.

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 …