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With a new introduction by Professor Richard Bradford, this is a timely, essential edition. Orwell's prescient text is a warning of a world walking into a dystopian future. 'Big Brother', 'newspeak' and 'thoughtcrimes' are central to the author’s demonstration of autocratic control, and offer a startling relevance for today.

A new edition of the classic text, a must-read for any serious student of politics and literature. This new edition offers the perspective of Professor John Sutherland on this great work, revealing Orwell to be a master storyteller, an acute political observer and an impassioned defender of humanity.

A new edition of the classic text, a must-read for any serious student of politics and literature. This new edition offers the perspective of Professor John Sutherland on this great work, revealing Orwell to be a master storyteller, an acute political observer and an impassioned defender of humanity.

Orwell is most well-known for his two famous books Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, but their dystopian vision was informed by observations of poverty and disillusion with political events. The new collection brings together the novels and extracts from his non-fiction, as well as work that influenced him, by Jack London and Yevgeny Zamyatin.

With a new introduction, this is a personal record of Orwell's growing disillusionment with the Spanish Civil War, gathering themes he would later explore to perfection in Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Having joined international leftist forces in Barcelona, Orwell grew frustrated by the repressive totalitarianism of Stalin's communism.

With a new introduction, this is a personal record of Orwell's growing disillusionment with the Spanish Civil War, gathering themes he would later explore to perfection in Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Having joined international leftist forces in Barcelona, Orwell grew frustrated by the repressive totalitarianism of Stalin's communism.

A new edition of Orwell's early account of bleak working class life in the industrial culture of Yorkshire and Lancashire, which revealed the distinctions between the upper classes of the British Empire and the reality of the people who worked in the factories to drive wealth and prosperity for others, never to get a share for themselves.