George Orwell: 1984. Animal Farm. Novels, story

English writer, critic, publicist and journalist George Orwell (real name Eric Arthur Blair) entered the history of literature primarily thanks to his last novel “1984” (1948, published 1949), which became one of the main dystopian books of the twentieth century century. The future society depicted by the author is based on total lack of personal freedom, propaganda and open violence - which, according to the author’s bitter and menacing prediction, won in the fictional state of Oceania by 1984; however, in its appearance one can easily recognize the realities of the Soviet system of the 1930-1940s and other dictatorial regimes - because, according to Orwell, all dictatorships are worth each other...
This collection also includes the famous satirical fairy tale-parable “Animal Farm” (1945 ), dedicated to the theme of the betrayed conquests of the revolution (later developed in "1984"), the autobiographical novel "Days in Burma" (1934) - a harsh and mocking denunciation of the romantic myth of European civilization bringing light to the colonized peoples of the East - and the novel "Long Live Ficus ! (1936), an ironic and sad story about how the failed poet John Comstock declared war on the Business God, refusing to live for money, worthy social status and other philistine values ​​(the symbol of which he considered the ficus tree displayed on the windowsill) - and about , what this led to.

Author: George Orwell

Translation: Larisa Bespalova, Viktor Golyshev, Vera Domiteeva

Pages: 768 (offset). Hardcover

Dimensions: 220x150x36 mm

Series: Foreign literature. Big books