Como Morrem Os Pobres E Outros Ensaios Autor: ORWELL, GEORGE Tradutor: SOARES, PEDRO MAIA Editora: COMPANHIA DAS LETRAS Assunto: LITERATURA ESTRANGEIRA - TEORIA E CRÍTICA LITERÁRIA ISBN: 8535918639 ISBN-13: 9788535918632 Livro em português Brochura  - 21 x 14 cm 1ª Edição - 2011 416 pág.

Esta obra contém relatos e reflexões de Orwell sobre sua vivência pessoal como sem-teto, colhedor boia-fria de lúpulo, presidiário e paciente de um hospital público. O livro também reúne seus artigos sobre o uso da linguagem verbal no romance, na poesia, na propaganda política e no jornalismo, onde o autor procura extrair revelações sobre a estrutura da sociedade, as mudanças nos costumes e as transformações operadas na Inglaterra e no mundo na primeira metade do século XX.

ORWELL, GEORGE
George Orwell worked successively as a private tutor, schoolteacher and bookshop assistant, and contributed reviews and articles to a number of periodicals in England. Down and Out in Paris and London was published in 1933. In 1936 he was commissioned by Victor Gollancz to visit areas of mass unemployment in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) is a powerful description of the poverty he saw there. At the end of 1936 Orwell went to Spain to fight for the Republicans and was wounded. Homage to Catalonia is his account of the civil war. He was admitted to a sanatorium in 1938 and from then on was never fully fit. He spent six months in Morocco and there wrote Coming Up for Air. During the Second World War he served in the Home Guard and worked for the BBC Eastern Service from 1941 to 1943. As literary editor of the Tribune he contributed a regular page of political and literary commentary, and he also wrote for the Observer and later for the Manchester Evening News. His unique political allegory, Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame.