11 livres semblables à 1984

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1984 George Orwell · 1949 · ★ 4.2 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Exigeant Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and… Thèmes communs : Community pick

Gatsby le Magnifique F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920 · ★ 3.9 · 431p · ≈ 14h · Exigeant Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to… Thèmes communs : Community pick

La Ferme des animaux George Orwell · 1945 · ★ 4.0 · 78p · ≈ 2h · Exigeant Animal Farm is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption. 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' 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… Thèmes communs : Totalitarianism, British and irish fiction

Le Meilleur des mondes Aldous Huxley · 1932 · ★ 4.0 · 235p · ≈ 7h · Exigeant Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media -- has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the… Thèmes communs : Totalitarianism, Dystopias

Les jours de la comète H. G. Wells · 1906 · ★ 3.3 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Exigeant H. G. Wells, in his 1906 In the Days of the Comet uses the vapors of a comet to trigger a deep and lasting change in humanity's perspective on themselves and the world. In the build-up to a great war, poor student William Leadford struggles against the harsh conditions the lower-class live under. He also falls in love with a middle-class girl named Nettie. But when he discovers that Nettie has… Thèmes communs : London, British and irish fiction

Les Trente-Neuf Marches John Buchan · 1915 · ★ 3.6 · 104p · ≈ 3h · Exigeant Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on… Thèmes communs : Textbooks for foreign speakers, English language

Quand le dormeur s'éveille H. G. Wells · 1899 · ★ 3.4 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Exigeant A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal… Thèmes communs : Dystopias, British and irish fiction

Le Napoléon de Notting Hill Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1904 · ★ 3.8 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Exigeant A witty and surreal novel of the future. In a rather dull stuck-in-a-rut future, a prankster chosen randomly to be King of England revives the old ways and inadvertently arouses romantic patriotism and civil war between the boroughs of London. Thèmes communs : London, British and irish fiction

Après Londres Richard Jefferies · 1885 · ★ 3.1 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Exigeant pages ; cm Thèmes communs : London, British and irish fiction

Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw · 1912 · ★ 3.9 · 134p · ≈ 4h · Exigeant Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. ---------- Also contained in: Collected Plays with their Prefaces: Volume IV Complete Plays with Prefaces: Volume I [Four Plays by Bernard Shaw][1] Plays Portable Bernard Shaw [Pygmalion and Major Barbara][2] [Pygmalion and My Fair… Thèmes communs : English language, London

Les Années Virginia Woolf · 1937 · 452p · ≈ 15h · Exigeant A stirring, straightforward work written near the end of her luminous career, Virginia Woolf's The Years is a portrait of the Pargiters, a staid London family presided over by Colonel Abel Pargiter. In some ways, "portrait" is not an entirely appropriate word, because Woolf's subject in this novel (and an abiding concern in all of her works) is fluidity and flux: the movement of the seasons and… Thèmes communs : London, British and irish fiction

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