George Orwell – författare

Om den ständigt pågående striden mellan de tre staterna Eurasien, Ostasien och Oceanien. Kriget upphör aldrig men konstellationerna ändras fortlöpande. Via den ständigt vakande teleskärmen hålls invånarna uppdaterade om vem som är fienden för dagen. Överallt i Flygbas Ett, som tidigare hette England, möter man bilden av Storebror, Oceaniens ledare. Han och partiets valspråk är: Krig är fred Frihet är slaveri Okunnighet är styrka. Ny pocketutgåva av George Orwells klassiska framtidsskildring som utkom första gången 1949. Thomas Warburtons översättning gjordes till återutgivningen 1984.

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. The animals at Manor Farm have had enough of Farmer Jones – he’s drunk, reckless and cares little for their welfare. When the boar, Old Major, shares his revolutionary plans, the animals are convinced they can thrive on their own once the despot Jones is removed. But as the pigs vie for power, they begin to bear an uncanny resemblance to the tyrants they have overthrown …George Orwell’s renowned fable and satirical portrait of politics became an instant success upon its publication after the Second World War. The novel has continued to captivate readers of all ages, and has secured Orwell’s position as one of the great writers of the twentieth century.

The perfect edition for any Orwell enthusiasts' collection, discover the classic dystopian masterpiece beautifully reimagined by renowned street artist Shepard FaireyWinston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101. . .First published in 1949, 1984 is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime.'Right up there among my favourite books . . . I read it again and again' Margaret Atwood 'More relevant to today than almost any other book that you can think of' Jo BrandCOMPLETE THE TRIO WITH SHEPARD FAIREY'S NEW-LOOK ANIMAL FARM AND DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON.

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. Big Brother is Watching You Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his job. Hidden away in the Records Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party and the omnipresent Big Brother control the people of Oceania. But the notebook he’s begun to write in is against the rules – in fact, the Thought Police could arrest him simply for having it. Despite the danger, a seed of rebellion has begun to grow in Winston’s heart – one that could have devastating consequences.In George Orwell’s final novel, he explores a dystopian future in which a totalitarian government controls the actions, thoughts and even emotions of its citizens. Its lasting popularity is testament to Orwell’s powerful prose, and is a passionate warning for today.

I den starkt genomskådande och satiriska berättelsen om Djurens gård kulminerar George Orwells besvikelse över kommunismen.Djuren på Herrgården har fått nog av människornas övergrepp. De gör uppror och grundar en ny filosofi som de kallar animalismen. De sjunger sin egen kampsång, O, Englands djur, och arbetar och trivs med sin nya tillvaro. Men smygande, nästan omärkligt, förändras deras förhållanden. En av de ledande grisarna, Napoleon, utbildar alltmer en sann diktators egenskaper.

The perfect edition for any Orwell enthusiasts' collection, discover Orwell's classic dystopian masterpiece beautifully reimagined by renowned street artist Shepard Fairey'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is organised to benefit all who walk on four legs. But as time passes, the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted, then forgotten. And something new and unexpected emerges. . .First published in 1945, Animal Farm - the history of a revolution that went wrong - is George Orwell's brilliant satire on the corrupting influence of power.'Remains our great satire of the darker face of modern history' Malcolm Bradbury 'A prophet who thought the unthinkable and spoke the unspeakable, even when it offended conventional thought' Daily Express'As valid today as it was fifty years ago' Ralph SteadmanCOMPLETE THE TRIO WITH SHEPARD FAIREY'S NEW-LOOK 1984 AND DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON.

With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell's 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition. "Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power." -The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organisation called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell's masterpiece "1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present." Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell's novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power. AUTHOR: George Orwell (1903-1950) was born in India and served with the Imperial Police in Burma before joining the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was the author of six novels as well as numerous essays and nonfiction works.

OBS! NYÖVERSÄTTNINGEN! George Orwells roman Djurens gård i nyöversättning och med efterord av Christian Ekvall. Nu är den äntligen här - den efterlängtade nyöversättningen av George Orwells Animal Farm, en av nittonhundratalets mest kända engelskspråkiga romaner och en av nittonhundratalets största litterära klassiker. Det lustiga (eller skrämmande) är att detta satiriska verk som skapades för över sjuttio år sedan fortfarande känns högaktuellt. Fenomenen och tendenserna som parodieras är lika vanliga och lika moraliskt urspårade nu som då. Boken har tidigare översatts till svenska med titeln Djurfarmen, trots att en bondgård på svenska sällan kallas farm. Fårfarm, grisfarm och minkfarm känns bekant, men inte djurfarm. Vi har därför valt att ge nyöversättningen den svenska titeln Djurens gård. Berättelsen handlar om bondgården där djuren gör uppror mot den elake, förtryckande bonden. Tillsammans försöker djuren införa frihet och rättvisa på gården. Det artar sig bra, ett tag, tills grisen Napoleon tar makten och blir envåldshärskare. I första hand skildrar boken hur Stalin tog makten i Sovjet, men i överförd bemärkelse handlar det om alla ojämlika samhällen. Orwell visste vad han talade om. Han hade själv upplevt hur den demokratiska socialismen krossades under spanska inbördeskriget och i Sovjet. Han hade sett folkets frihetskamp korrumperas av makthungriga ledare. Han sökte efter rätt form för att uttrycka denna kritik. Vad skulle fungera bäst? Skulle han skriva en rapportbok? Eller en roman? Eller ett mellanting, en dokumentärroman? Till slut kom han fram till att den perfekta formen för att åskådliggöra detta absurda maktmissbruk var en fabel, alltså att berätta historien som om den handlade om djur. Boken kom ut i augusti 1945, i världskrigets slutskede, och blev en omedelbar försäljningsframgång både i England och USA. Inom kort översattes den till ett flertal språk. På svenska kom den 1946. Den utkommer alltjämt i nya utgåvor, världen över, och på vissa håll är den alltjämt listad som förbjuden litteratur. Så sent som 2018 beslutade Kinas regering att censurera alla inlägg på nätet som refererar till den. Själv fick Orwell bara uppleva mindre är fem år av bokens framgångar, eftersom han gick bort 1950. Kort innan han dog hann han skriva klart sin andra megaklassiker - romanen 1984. George Orwells roman Djurens gård. Översättning och efterord Christian Ekvall. ISBN 978-91-7742-559-5. Högkvalitetspapper, sydda ark, klotband (=hårda pärmar och tygrygg). 128 sidor.

'The feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world ... this prospect frightens me much more than bombs'On the 70th anniversary of George Orwell's death, a new collection of his brilliant essays written during the Second World WarFascism and Democracy collects five brilliant examples of Orwell's writing during the darkest days of World War Two. Grappling with the principles of democracy and the potential of reform, the meaning of literature and free speech in times of violence, and the sustainability of objective truth, Orwell offers a compelling portrayal of a nation where norms and ideals can no longer be taken for granted. Like the best of Orwell's writing, these essays also serve as timeless reminders of the fragility of freedom.

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, Mr Jones, and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another. Orwell's chilling 'fairy story' is a timeless and devastating satire of idealism betrayed by power and corruption.

In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain’s ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin’s brutal regime was either censored or discouraged. In any case, many intellectuals on the left still celebrated the Soviet Union, claiming that the terrors of its show trials, summary executions and secret police were either exaggerated or necessary. But, to Orwell, Stalin was always a “disgusting murderer” and he wanted to remind people of this fact in a powerful and memorable way. But how to do it? A political essay would never reach a wide enough audience; a traditional novel would take too long to write. Orwell hit on the inspired idea of combining the moralism of the traditional ‘beast fable’ with the satire of Gulliver’s Travels. A group of farmyard animals, led by the pigs, overthrow their human masters. Their revolution is inspired by high ideals: the farm will be run in the interests of its animals with no more slaughtering, plenty of food for all and comfort in retirement. But when Napoleon the pig takes command, he quickly corrupts their principles, creating a new tyranny worse than the old.Orwell wrote Animal Farm in the middle of the Second World War, but at first no publishers wanted to touch it. It was finally published in August 1945, once the war was over. This little book quickly became a seminal text in the emerging ‘cold war’ (a phrase that Orwell himself coined). It also became a site of that conflict itself, suffering various attempts to subvert or change its meaning.

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother, control the people of Oceania.Winston knows what a good citizen of Oceania must do: show his devotion for Big Brother and the Party; abstain from all vices; and, most importantly, possess no critical thoughts of their own. The new notebook he’s begun to write in is definitely against the rules – in fact, the Thought Police could arrest him simply for having it. Yet, as Winston begins to write his own history, a seed of rebellion begins to grow in his heart – one that could have devastating consequences.In George Orwell’s final and most well-known novel, he explores a dystopian future in which a totalitarian government controls the actions, thoughts and even emotions of its citizens, exercising power through control of language and history. Its lasting popularity is testament to Orwell’s powerful prose, and is a passionate political warning for today

The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes 'My Country Right or Left', 'Decline of the English Murder', 'Shooting an Elephant' and 'A Hanging'. With great originality and wit Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism, from a comic yet profound discussion of naughty seaside postcards to a spirited defence of English cooking. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose, Orwell's essays created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and continue to challenge, move and entertain.This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Bernard Crick.

George Orwell's masterwork, now in the Penguin Clothbound Classics series with a cover designed by Coralie Bickford-SmithOne of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World''Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century.

'Politics and the English Language' is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth.'All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.'Language is a political issue, and slovenly use of language and cliches make it easier for those in power to deliberately use misleading language to hide unpleasant political facts. Bad English, he believed, was a vehicle for oppressive ideology, and it is no accident that 'Politics and the English Language' was written after the close of World War II.

OBS! NYÖVERSÄTTNINGEN! George Orwells legendariska roman 1984 i efterlängtad nyöversättning av Christian Ekvall. Berättelsen utspelas i ett grådystert London. Huvudpersonen Winston bor i en lägenhet i det nedslitna hyreskomplexet Segerhuset. Romanen börjar med att Winston kommer springande i aprilblåsten och glider in genom glasdörrarna till Segerhuset utan att kunna hejda en virvel av sand från att också slinka in. I entrén och på varje våningplan ser han affischen med det enorma ansiktet och texten "STOREBROR SER DIG". Han tar trapporna upp till sin lägenhet eftersom hissen som vanligt inte fungerar. I varje hem finns en mörk metallplatta som kallas teleskärmen. Den sänder ut bild och ljud - för det mesta är det Partiets musik varvad med mässande röster som förmedlar dagens partiinformation. Skärmen registrerar också vad som händer i lägenheten. Partiet, med ledargestalten Storebror, ser allt, hör allt. Winston arbetar på Sanningsministeriet. Hans uppgift är att skriva om historien genom att korrigera gamla böcker och tidningsartiklar så att de stämmer med Partiets beskrivning av det förflutna. Han trivs inte med sin vardag. Han känner sig hopplöst ensam och rädd för att hans stora hemlighet ska avslöjas: att han misstror Partiet. Winstons kollegor kämpar för att vara så renläriga som möjligt. Skräcken alla lever med är att Tankepolisen ska upptäcka att man sagt, gjort eller bara tänkt något oacceptabelt. Winstons liv förändras den dag han får ett meddelande från Julia, en ung kvinna på Skönlitterära avdelningen... 1984 är den klassiska romanen om hur överheten - samhället, staten, strukturerna - härskar över individen genom att kontrollera språket och tänkandet. "För att regera och fortsätta regera måste man kunna rubba verklighetsuppfattningen." Det kontrollerade vansinnet... Fredsministeriet sysslar med krig. Sanningsministeriet sysslar med lögner. Kärleksministeriet sysslar med tortyr. Välståndsministeriet sysslar med svält. Orwell skrev klart sin roman 1948 och den utkom 1949, ett halvår innan han dog. Här i efterlängtad nyöversättning av Christian Ekvall som också skrivit det initierade efterordet om Orwells liv och om tillkomsten av denna bok. George Orwells roman 1984. Översättning och efterord Christian Ekvall. ISBN 978-91-7742-550-2. Högkvalitetspapper, sydda ark, mjuka pärmar med flikar. 288 sidor.

George Orwells roman Nere för räkning i Paris och London, i nyöversättning av Christian Ekvall som också skrivit efterordet. Av Orwells stora produktion av romaner, essäer och reportage har tre böcker blivit moderna klassiker. Förutom 1984 och Djurens gård är det Nere för räkning i Paris och London, som Bakhåll har glädjen att publicera i nyöversättning. Det här är Orwells debutbok, den är starkt självbiografisk och handlar om hans slitsamma tid som diversearbetare och utfattig i tjugofemårsåldern och några år framåt. Han jobbar bland annat som diskare på ett lyxhotell i Paris. Hotellet är lyxigt för gästerna, salongerna och rummen är överdådiga, men för personalen i källarregionerna där maten lagas råder en annan verklighet. Stressigt arbete fjorton timmar om dagen i trånga stekheta lokaler med chefer som hela tiden skriker att tempot måste öka, öka. Slående är inte bara stressen utan också smutsen, svetten, slarvandet och fuskandet bakom kulisserna. Det mesta som serveras är i själva verket fejk, maten ser vacker ut men allt är bara ett sken. Orwell berättar med en oerhörd närvaro, med blick för människorna, situationerna, motsättningarna, miljöerna och med den sortens dråpliga galghumor som uppstår i hans förtvivlan över att det hårda tröstlösa slitet håller på att knäcka honom totalt. Mot slutet av 1929 lyckas han ta sig ur helvetet i Paris, men strax har han istället hamnat i fattigdom i London. Under två år kämpar han för att klara livhanken som arbetslös lodis i den engelska huvudstaden med förorter. Han måste ständigt vara på vandring eftersom lösdriverilagen inte tillåter övernattning på samma ställe två nätter i rad. Den hemlöse måste alltså hela tiden dra vidare eftersom polisen kör bort honom var han än lägger sig att vila eller sova. Vad som finns är härbärgen och ungkarlshotell som myllrar av kackerlackor och vägglöss och sängar med lakan bruna av smuts och utskänkning av vedervärdig näringsfattig mat. Det som gör boken till en litterär klassiker och en stor upplevelse att läsa är Orwells sätt att hantera det han skriver om. Den självupplevda situationen stöpt i återhållen skarp prosa där varje ord är övervägt och tillslipat, där miljöerna och händelserna målas upp med gnistrande skärpa. Idag frågar vi oss varför vårt samhälle fortfarande har kvar så stora orättvisor. Varför är den hårdast utsatta delen av befolkningen fortfarande precis lika oempatiskt behandlad, nu som då? George Orwells roman Nere för räkning i Paris och London. Översättning och efterord av Christian Ekvall. ISBN 978-91-7742-595-3. Högkvalitetspapper, sydda ark, mjuka pärmar med flikar, 256 sidor.

A biting satire on dictatorship written during the Second World War and published in 1945, ANIMAL FARM is perhaps the most celebrated twentieth-century English satire after the same writer's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR. One of the very few writers to be compared in power, artistry and moral authority with Jonathan Swift, the purity of Orwell's spare prose and the logic of his dark comedy emphasize the stark message of man's inhumanity to man and beast's to beast

'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs'Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote about his nation better than anyone. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes and cynical betrayals of that chaotic episode: the revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona, the courage of ordinary Spanish men and women he fought alongside, the terror and confusion of the front, his near-fatal bullet wound and the vicious treachery of his supposed allies.A firsthand account of the brutal conditions of the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia includes an introduction by Julian Symons in Penguin Modern Classics.

The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were newly created by George Orwell in 1949 as he conjured his dystopian vision of a world where totalitarian power is absolute. In this novel, continuously popular since its first publication, readers can explore the dark and extraordinary world he brought so fully to life. The principal characters who lead us through that world are ordinary human beings like ourselves: Winston Smith and Julia, whose falling in love is also an act of rebellion against the Party. Opposing them are the massed powers of the state, which watches its citizens on all sides through technology now only too familiar to us. No-one is free from surveillance; the past is constantly altered, so that there is no truth except the most recent version; and Big Brother, both loved and feared, controls all. Even the simple act of keeping a diary – as Winston does – is punishable by death. In Winston’s battle to keep his freedom of thought, he has a powerful adversary in O’Brien, who uses fear and pain to enter his very thought processes. Does 2+2 = 4? Or is it 5? We find out in Room 101.Nineteen Eighty-Four was Orwell’s last novel; but the world he created is always with us, as successive generations of readers find within it a mirror for their own times and a warning for the future. Our edition also includes the following selection of Orwell's essays, column extracts and broadcasts: A Hanging; Spilling the Spanish Beans; Reviews of Jack London, The Iron Heel; H. G. Wells, When the Sleeper Awakes; Aldous Huxley, Brave New World; Ernest Bramah, The Secret of the League ; England Your England; Looking Back on the Spanish War; Arthur Koestler; The Prevention of Literature; Politics and the English Language; Why I Write; Politics Vs Literature; Sir Walter Raleigh; The Three Super-States of the Future; Persecution of Writers in USSR; Literature and Totalitarianism; Imaginary Interview: George Orwell and Jonathan Swift

The perfect edition for any Orwell enthusiasts' collection, discover Orwell's personal account of life on the streets beautifully reimagined by renowned street artist Shepard FaireyTo be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was to experience life at its lowest ebb. George Orwell, penniless and with nowhere to go, found himself experiencing just this as he wandered the streets of both capitals in search of a job. By day, he tramped the streets, often passing time with 'screevers' or street artists, drunks and other hobos. At night, he stood in line for a bed in a 'spike' or doss house, where a cup of sugary tea, a hunk of stale bread and a blanket were the only sustenance and comfort on offer.First published in 1933, Down and Out in Paris and London is George Orwell's haunting account of the streets and those who have no choice but to live on them.'A man who looked at his world with wonder and wrote down exactly what he saw, in admirable prose' John MortimerCOMPLETE THE TRIO WITH SHEPARD FAIREY'S NEW-LOOK 1984 AND ANIMAL FARM.