Real Reads – förlag

Dystopin 1984 nu på lättläst engelska! Den handlar om det framtida samhället Oceanien, där Storebror ser och övervakar allt. Winston Smith drömmer om ett annat liv. Går det att bli fri? Finns det något som partiet inte kan kontrollera? Kan det vara kärleken? Här skildras ett totalitärt samhälle med förutsägelser som med skrämmande precision har slagit in i samhället idag.George Orwells roman 1984 utkom första gången 1949, och är en av 1900-talets mest kända böcker. Här är denna klassiska dystopi på lättläst engelska. Romanen skrevs i skuggan av andra världskriget, och utspelar sig i en tänkt framtid där världen gått igenom ännu ett världskrig och som därför styrs av konkurrerande stater. Företeelser som krigshets, terrorism, propaganda, indoktrinering, tortyr, personkult, Stalins deporteringar och Hitlerjugend känns lätt igen från den verkliga historien. Romanen blev i viss mån föremål för magiskt tänkande då man på sina håll trodde att året 1984 skulle bli en ödesdiger vändpunkt i världshistorien. Författaren George Orwell fick uppslaget till romanen 1944, och boken publicerades i mitten av 1949. Romanen har blivit välkänd och får räknas som en klassiker vars innehåll även de känner till, som inte har läst den. Boken finns även på svenska; 1984.

This was my life, my career, my brilliant career!

With a hungry, timid request of ‘Please, sir. I want some more’, orphan Oliver Twist takes his first step on a terrifying journey.

An escaped convict threatens to eat young Pip’s heart for breakfast. The ghostly Miss Havisham invites Pip to her eerie home. A mysterious benefactor makes him suddenly wealthy. Pip’s life will never be the same again.

‘Bah, humbug! Fools wishing me a Merry Christmas should be forced to sit on cushions stuffed with holly leaves or boiled with their own Christmas puddings.’

When David’s mother marries the malevolent Mr Murdstone, David’s childhood happiness is destroyed for ever.

‘It would have been far better if you had never been born.’

Louisa is the practical daughter of a powerful industrialist. Sissy is the imaginative daughter of a clown. What will happen when two such different lives collide?

‘You are the last man in the world I would marry.’

After eight years of heartache, can anyone love again?

The time has come for an unlikely heroine to have a real adventure.

‘Your little cousin cannot help being dull and stupid.’

‘I must warn you that you might guess twenty things without guessing correctly.’

Marianne is ablaze with fire and passion; Elinor keeps her own heat under control.

No one would have believed that planet Earth was being watched by creatures more intelligent than humankind.

‘On this machine, I intend to explore time ...’

‘Dinosaurs are most certainly not extinct. I have seen them.’

When Dr Henry Jekyll dares to explore the delicate balance between good and evil, he little suspects the destructive powers he will unleash.

When Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to sell a house, he little expects the horrors that await.

‘You must hear my tale. You must hear my terrible, terrible tale.’

Tom Sawyer is a respectable boy in a little Mississippi River town. Huck Finn is a freedom-loving, neglected outcast. What better playmate could Tom want?

Huckleberry Finn would rather be free than ‘sivilized’.

I saw everything. They told me everything. I played a part in everything.

Jane Eyre is poor, parentless and plain. Her future looks bleak.

I had been given a simple but enormous task. This was the role for which I had spent my whole life preparing.

Can you spare the time to listen to my account? I should like to tell the whole story, just once before I die.

My darkness lifted, never to return. This man was truly the light of the world.

Unfortunately for me, nothing is ever simple.

Who expects their life to change completely in one moment?