Тяжело с английским? Не делайте из мухи слона! Справиться со сложностями вам поможет Джордж Оруэлл. Его короткие эссе отлично подходят для того, чтобы потренироваться читать в оригинале. В книгу вошли эссе Оруэлла на разные темы: от лягушек и чая до атомной бомбы. Текст без сокращений и адаптации....

\"When I was about sixteen I suddenly discovered the joy of mere words\" Best known for his remarkable novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell\"s essay writings throughout the 1930s and 40s are just as compelling....

‘Big Brother is Watching You.’ 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....

I sometimes fear we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs. In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War....

If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coalminer. In the mid-1930s, George Orwell was given an assignment from his publisher - to write a book about unemployment and social conditions in the economically depressed north of England....

Three francs will feed you till tomorrow, and you cannot think further than that… As a young man struggling to find his voice as a writer, George Orwell left the comfort of home to live in the impoverished working districts of Paris and London....

George Orwell\"s moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change. The Lion and the Unicorn was written in London during the worst period of the blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his belief in socialism, patriotism and an English revolution....

You can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how. But it is a complicated business. When he was a struggling writer in his twenties, George Orwell lived as a down-and-out among the poorest members of society....

Much of George Orwell\"s best writing, brought together in this collection, is concerned with his complex, often contradictory attitude to England....

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world\"s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Med...

The authoratitive text \"There are occasions where it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all\" Both a memoir of Orwell\"s experiences during the Spanish Civil War and a heartfelt tribute to those who died, Homage to Catalonia is an extraordinary first-hand record of him time on the frontline....

Includes \"The Freedom of the Press\", intended as the preface to \"Animal Farm\" but undiscovered until 1972. Considered by Noam Chomsky to be Orwell\"s most important essay. These essays demonstsrate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the last century....

The powerful writings collected together in this volume chronicle George Orwell\"s first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the \"two nations\" of rich and poor....

Despite hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock decides to declare war on money and all the middle-class trappings that wealth can buy. Working in a small bookshop and living in a bedsit in London, he dreams of completing an ambitious poem in rhyme royal and devoting his life to literature....

Follows the text of the first edition published by Secker & Warburg in 1938....