Winston Smith puts his life on the line when he joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the party that controls all human thought and action.

El libro más emblemático de Bradbury llega a Minotauro Esenciales. Un clásico de la literatura. Fahrenheit 451: la temperatura a la que el papel se enciende y arde. Guy Montag es un bombero y el trabajo de un bombero es quemar libros, que están prohibidos porque son causa de discordia y sufrimiento. El Sabueso Mecánico del Departamento de Incendios, armado con una letal inyección hipodérmica, escoltado por helicópteros, está preparado para...

Six hundred years into the future, humans are bred by cloning, and "mother" and "father" are forbidden words. Originally published in 1932, Huxley's terrifying vision of a controlled and emotionless future "Utopian" society is truly startling in its prediction of modern scientific and cultural phenomena, including test-tube babies and rampant drug abuse.

"As the sun beats down on Adana, cups of raki are passed to the guests of a dinner party at Ali's. Among the diners are a journalistnamed Oya, who has recently been released from prison, and her new acquaintance Mustafa.Together they debate communisn and socialism, tossing words around the room "like hot peppers". When police raid Ali's home, his guests are carted off to holding cells, where they are interrogated on charges of harboring leftist sympathies."--cover....

In 1962 in America, slavery is legal again. Twenty years earlier the United States lost a war, and is now being occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.

"Nestled in the heart of a farmforgotten by men, the Animal Castle is ruled with an iron hoof by President Silvio. The bull and its dog militia savor their power, while the other animals are exhausted by work, until the arrival of the mysterious Azelard,a traveling rat who will teach them the secrets of civil disobedience"--

Whit and Wisty Allgood have led the resistance against a totalitarian regime that has banned all forms of creativity and executed their parents, but even the growing strength of the siblings' magic has not been able to stop the evil dictator, and they must somehow prepare for an imminent showdown.

Huxley's vision of the future comes to life in his astonishing 1931 novel Brave New World--a world of tomorrow in which capitalist civilization has been reconstituted through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering--and its sequel, written thirty years after his classic novel of the future, in which Huxley describes the shocking scientific devices and techniques available to any group in a position to manipulate society. Huxley's...