George Orwell Visions of Dystopia

Orwell is most well-known for his two famous novels Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, but their dystopian vision was informed by observations of poverty in England, as depicted in Down and Out in Paris' and London and Road to Wigan Pier. His disillusionment with political and national events of the 1930s and 1940s also played a significant role. Homage to Catalonia chronicled 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. It also includes pertinent work by Jack London, who explored totalitarianism in The Iron Heel (fiction), and the Russian dissident Yevgeny Zamyatin, whose work We (1921) offers a strong warning about a dystopian police state.

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AUTHOR: George Orwell, the pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, was born in Bengal, India, in 1903. He was educated at Eton, became a policeman in Burma, but suffered and studied poverty. His great works, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, are a product of his hatred of totalitarianism. His legacy of writing and political thought is much admired today.

Hardback, Deluxe edition, printed on silver, matt laminated, gold and silver foil stamped, embossed with 25 illustrations.