Selected: 1984. Animal Farm. Looking Back on the Spanish War (Illustrated Edition) (ePub)

For the first half century after publication, Orwell's dystopia, 1984, was perceived as a wicked satire on communist regimes.
But, alas, the prophetic details of the world of "1984" are increasingly becoming a reality of the modern, as it were, decommunized world.
The fantastic realities invented by George Orwell for Britain in 1984 have long been included in the cultural code of a modern person who is dependent on global corporations, social networks and the media.
Orwell's Animal Farm is a parable full of bitter irony and sarcasm. The tragic story of a community of animals that decided to get rid of oppression by people, but as a result fell under the savage power of pigs.
In the story, Orwell showed the degeneration of revolutionary principles and programs, that is, a gradual transition from the ideas of universal equality and building a utopia to dictatorship and totalitarianism. The Animal Farm is a parable, an allegory for the 1917 revolution and subsequent events in Russia.
Reminiscences of the Spanish War is an essay on the civil war between the Spanish left and the fascists, in which Orwell warns of the danger of an impending totalitarianism, asserted largely by the manipulation, propaganda and cowardly compromise of the liberals. It is a passionate anti-war, humanistic appeal of the writer, containing ideas that have developed in the works of fiction presented in this collection.
Content:
1984
Animal Farm
Looking Back on the Spanish War