George Orwell

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-SmithCelebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. Today, George Orwell is perhaps most famous for his iconic novels - Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm - but in his own time it was his remarkable nonfiction writing which drew most attention. Kind-hearted, intelligent, often funny, occasionally indignant, always insightful: his essays are some of the best ever written. Among others, this selection includes 'Shooting an Elephant', 'Such, Such Were the Joys' and 'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'.

""Animal Farm"" by George Orwell is a timeless and thought-provoking allegorical masterpiece that takes readers on a captivating journey into the heart of political upheaval and societal transformation. Set in a seemingly idyllic farm, the story unfolds as the animals, led by the wise old boar, Old Major, revolt against their oppressive human farmer, Mr. Jones, with dreams of creating a utopian society where all animals are equal. However, as the animals establish their own government and adopt the Seven Commandments of Animalism, the initial spirit of unity and equality begins to erode. Orwell skillfully explores the corrupting nature of power and the tragic consequences of revolutionary ideals as the pigs, notably the cunning Napoleon and eloquent Squealer, consolidate their control, betraying the very principles they had once championed. ""Animal Farm"" serves as a chilling cautionary tale about the dangers of totalitarianism, propaganda, and the manipulation of truth. With its compelling characters and sharp political commentary, this classic novella continues to resonate with readers of all ages, offering a stark reminder of the timeless struggle for justice and freedom in a world where ideals can be easily distorted and corrupted.

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.

AW ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MAIR EQUAL THAN ITHERSIt didnae seem unco when Napoleon wis seen daunderin aboot the fairmhoose gairden wi a pipe in his mooth... Frae the instant o its first publication ower seeventy year syne, Animal Fairm, in mony weys, has come tae be oor socio-political urtext – oor wan-singer-wan-sang, oor collective pairty piece, the script we’re doomed tae keep repeatin... George Orwell’s faur-kent novel Animal Fairm, yin o Time magazine’s 100 brawest English-leid novels o aw time, has been translatit intae Scots for the verra first time by Thomas Clark. When the animals o Manor Fairm cast aff thirldom an tak control frae Mr Jones, they hae howps for a life o freedom an equality. But when the pigs Napoleon and Snawbaw rise tae pouer, the ither animals find oot that they’re mebbe no aw as equal as they’d aince thocht. A tragic political allegory described by Orwell as bein ‘the history o a revolution that went wrang’, this buik is as relevant noo – if no mair sae – as when it wis first set oot.

"A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him." "It is worth saying something about the social position of beggars, for when one has consorted with them, and found that they are ordinary human beings, one cannot help being struck by the curious attitude that society takes towards them. People seem to feel that there is some essential difference between beggars and ordinary 'working' men. They are a race apart--outcasts, like criminals and prostitutes. Working men 'work', beggars do not 'work'; they are parasites, worthless in their very nature. It is taken for granted that a beggar does not 'earn' his living, as a bricklayer or a literary critic 'earns' his. He is a mere social excrescence, tolerated because we live in a humane age, but essentially despicable."

Toisen maailmansodan kauhut pakottivat Jean-Paul Sartren, George Orwellin ja István Bibón kunkin tahollaan erittelemään juutalaisten kansanmurhaan kulminoituneen antisemitismin syntyä ja olemusta. Miten kaiken kuvittelukyvyn ulottumattomissa oleva oli voinut tapahtua? Antisemitismin kirous kokoaa yksiin kansiin kolme heti sodan jälkeen kirjoitettua klassikkotekstiä. Sartre lähestyy aihetta piirtämällä kuvan ranskalaisen ”antisemiitin” psykologiasta, ja Orwell kirjoittaa omien havaintojensa pohjalta antisemitismin ilmenemismuodoista Englannissa. Bibó taas kuvaa Unkarin holokaustiin johtaneita historiallisia prosesseja ja pureutuu sikäläisen antisemitismin ytimeen. Hän pohtii samalla armottomia kysymyksiä vastuusta ja syyllisyydestä vuoden 1944 saksalaismiehityksen jälkeen. Juutalaisvastaisuuteen sisältyviä myyttejä ja stereotypioita purkava teos auttaa hahmottamaan myös nykyisen antisemitismin taustoja sekä ylipäätään etnisten ja kulttuuristen ennakkoluulojen rakentumista. Kuten suomentajien taustoittavat osuudet kertovat, nämä ilmiöt eivät ole valitettavasti kadonneet mihinkään vaan pikemminkin saaneet uusia muotoja.

AW ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MAIR EQUAL THAN ITHERSIt didnae seem unco when Napoleon wis seen daunderin aboot the fairmhoose gairden wi a pipe in his mooth... Frae the instant o its first publication ower seeventy year syne, Animal Fairm, in mony weys, has come tae be oor socio-political urtext – oor wan-singer-wan-sang, oor collective pairty piece, the script we’re doomed tae keep repeatin... George Orwell’s faur-kent novel Animal Fairm, yin o Time magazine’s 100 brawest English-leid novels o aw time, has been translatit intae Scots for the verra first time by Thomas Clark. When the animals o Manor Fairm cast aff thirldom an tak control frae Mr Jones, they hae howps for a life o freedom an equality. But when the pigs Napoleon and Snawbaw rise tae pouer, the ither animals find oot that they’re mebbe no aw as equal as they’d aince thocht. A tragic political allegory described by Orwell as bein ‘the history o a revolution that went wrang’, this buik is as relevant noo – if no mair sae – as when it wis first set oot.

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George Orwell is one of the world's most influential writers, the visionary author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four and non-fiction classics Down and Out in Paris in London, The Road toWigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia. George Orwell was born Eric Blair in India in 1903 into a comfortable'lower-upper-middle class' family. Orwell's father had served the British Empire, and Orwell's own first job was as a policeman in Burma. Orwell wrote in "Shooting an Elephant" (1936) that his time in the police force had shown him the "dirty work of Empire at close quarters"; the experience made him a lifelong foe of imperialism. By the time of his death in 1950, he was world-renowned as a journalist and author: for his eyewitness reporting on war (shot in the neck in Spain) and poverty (tramping in London, washing dishes in Paris or visiting pits and the poor in Wigan); for his political and cultural commentary, where he stood up to power and said the unsayable ('If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear'); and for his fiction, including two of the most popular novels ever written: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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Chto budet, esli v pravjaschikh krugakh rasprostranjatsja idei fashizma i diktatury? Kakim stanet obschestvennyj uklad, esli vlast potrebuet neuklonnogo podchinenija? K kakoj katastrofe privedet podobnyj rezhim? V gosudarstve Okeanija u grazhdan net prav, a znachit, vlast partii absoljutna. Povsednevnaja zhizn geroev prokhodit v uslovijakh strakha i postojannykh potrjasenij. Zdes perecherknuty svoboda slova, svoboda pechati, svoboda vybora, svoboda ljubvi i dazhe svoboda mysli. Narushit porjadok nevozmozhno, ved Starshij Brat smotrit za kazhdym. Uzhasy prestuplenij gosudarstvennoj mashiny zafiksiroval Dzhordzh Oruell v svoem glavnom tvorenii - "1984". Etot roman-preduprezhdenie ob opasnosti totalitarizma stal odnoj iz samykh izvestnykh antiutopij XX veka, kotoraja stoit v odnom rjadu s "My" Zamjatina, "O divnyj novyj mir" Khaksli i "451o po Farengejtu" Bredberi. Perevodchik: Shepelev D. L.

Winston Smith is an ordinary party functionary in a totalitarian state whose job is to rewrite history to suit current needs. However, Winston's desire for the truth forces him to secretly rebel against the government. He starts a forbidden affair with a like-minded Julia, and they join the Brotherhood, an opposition group. The couple is closely watched. In fact, posters all over the city warned: "Big Brother is watching you."

Pervyj roman avtora romana-antiutopii "1984" Dzhordzha Oruella! Osnovannyj na ego opyte raboty v politsii Birmy v 1920-e gody, "Dni v Birme" vyzval gorjachie spory iz-za rezkogo izobrazhenija kolonialnogo obschestva. Gruppa anglichan, chlenov evropejskogo kluba, edina v svoem chuvstve prevoskhodstva nad birmantsami, no kazhdyj iz nikh predelno odinok i obilno zaglushaet tosku po rodine chrezmernym upotrebleniem viski. Dzhon Flori, lesotorgovets, priderzhivaetsja inykh vzgljadov: on schitaet, chto birmantsy i ikh kultura samobytny i dolzhny tsenitsja kak prekrasnye i dostojnye veschi. Flori dopolnitelno podryvaet veru v britanskoe vsemoguschestvo svoej druzhboj s doktorom Verasvami, potentsialnym kandidatom na vstuplenie v evropejskij klub. A Verasvami, v svoju ochered, nakhoditsja pod pristalnym vnimaniem besprintsipnogo mestnogo sudi Ju Po Kina, radi vlasti gotovogo na mnogoe... Vnutrennij konflikt Flori oslozhnjaetsja vnezapnym pribytiem v Birmu molodoj anglichanki Elizabet. Najdet li on v sebe sily postupit po sovesti i byt schastlivym s zhenschinoj, kotoruju ljubit?