Peter Davison Libros

Nominada por los estadounidenses como una de las 100 mejores novelas en la serie de PBS The Great American Read, la obra de Orwell, escrita en 1948, se ha transformado de ciencia ficción a un manifiesto de la realidad. En 1984, Londres es una ciudad sombría donde la Policía del Pensamiento controla la vida de los ciudadanos. Winston Smith, un peón en este sistema opresivo, tiene la tarea de reescribir la historia para ajustarla a la versión oficial del Partido. Sin embargo, su vida da un giro cuando recibe un mensaje de amor de una mujer que apenas conoce, lo que lo lleva a cuestionar la verdad del sistema que los gobierna. Esta obra es un poderoso relato de rebelión y opresión, donde conceptos como "la guerra es paz" y "la libertad es esclavitud" resuenan en la conciencia colectiva. La historia de Winston y su búsqueda de la verdad se convierte en un acto de desafío frente a un régimen totalitario que vigila cada aspecto de la vida. A través de la lucha por la libertad y la autenticidad, se exploran temas de control, identidad y la naturaleza de la realidad en un mundo distópico.

Orwell's classic satire ANIMAL FARM continues to be an international best seller. For the first time ever, ORWELL AND POLITICS brings this major work together with the author's other works exploring the nature of politics and the Second World War.

Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War.

“No one has attempted so knowing and evocative a description of this literary milieu. . . . Davidson’s approach is both novel and illuminating. He presents his authors individually [and as] a group, carefully tracing their relation to one another. . . . He is uniquely qualified to chronicle the complex story. He is the ultimate literary Boston insider―not only the longtime poetry editor for the Atlantic Montly but successively a key editor at three major publishing houses. The author of nine volumes of poetry, he knew all the major characters of his narrative personally. . . . [His book] provides a candid, first-hand account of the mid-century poetic revolution.” ―Dana Gioia, Washington Post Book World This extraordinary account, by a participant who knew them all, offers vivid reminiscences of Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Sylvia Plath, Richard Wilbur, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, and many others who interacted with each other and shaped American poetry at mid-century.

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Ever since its publication in 1948, George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian regime where Big Brother controls its citizens like 'a boot stamping on a human face' has become a touchstone for human freedom, and one of the most widely-read books in the world. In this new annotated edition Orwell's biographer D. J. Taylor elucidates the full meaning of this timeless satire, explaining contemporary references in the novel, placing it in the context of Orwell's life, elaborating on his extraordinary use of language and explaining the terms such as Newspeak, Doublethink and Room 101 that have become familiar phrases today. This is the essential edition of the essential book of modern times. Annotated and with an Introduction by D. J. Taylor 'The book of the twentieth century . . . haunts us with an ever-darker relevance.' Independent 'The greatest writer of the twentieth century.' Observer