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George Orwell Visions of Dystopia

George Orwell Visions of Dystopia

by George. Orwell
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/03/2021

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Orwell is most well-known for his two famous novels Nineteen Eighty-Fourand Animal Farm, but their dystopian vision was informed by observations of poverty in England (Down and Out in Paris' and Londonand Road to Wigan Pier), and disillusion with political and national events of the 1930s and 1940s. Homage to Cataloniachronicled his experience of the Spanish Civil War and formulated his revulsion against totalitarianism, highlighted in his subsequent novels.

This new collection (edited and with a new introduction by Professor Richard Bradford, and a foreword by Whitbread Prize winner D.J. Taylor) brings together Orwell's two celebrated novels and extracts from his seminal non-fiction, along with with pertinent work by Jack London, who also explored totalitarianism in The Iron Heel(fiction), and the Russian dissident Yevgeny Zamyatin whose own work We(1921) offers a strong warning about a dystopian police state.

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ISBN:
9781839644740
9781839644740
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-03-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Flame Tree Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
432
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x36mm
Weight:
0.79kg

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