Decline of the English Murder

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,...

George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. The Orwell Diaries presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook. An entry from 1931 tells of a communal shave in the Trafalgar Square fountains, while notes from his travels through industrial England show the development of the impassioned social commentator. This same acute power of observation is evident in his diaries from Morocco, as well as at...

One of Britains most popular novels, George Orwells dystopian tale Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by The Party. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.Winston 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...

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. Orwells chilling fairy story...

Нет лучшего способа для изучения иностранного языка, чем чтение книг в оригинале. Именно так можно прочувствовать всю мелодику слов, фраз и предложений, узнать множество новых слов и выражений, закрепить правила грамматики и орфографии, а также самому без помощи переводчика, проникнуть в замысел автора и разгадать шифры, спрятанные в произведении. Легендарная антиутопия Джорджа Оруэлла, помимо увлекательной литературной составляющей, знаменита ещё и тем, что благодаря безудержной фантазии...

"Скотный двор" - сатирическая повесть Джорджа Оруэлла, изданная в 1945 году. В повести изображена эволюция общества животных от безграничной свободы к диктатуре свиньи по прозвищу Наполеон. В повести Оруэлл убедительно показал постепенный переход от идей всеобщего равенства к диктатуре и тоталитаризму. Критики называют это произведение острой сатирой на революцию 1917 года в России. Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.