Få av etterkrigstidens bøker har øvd større innflytelse enn George Orwells mesterverk fra 1949. 1984 er en djerv framtidsfabel som sikter inn på å avsløre totalitære systemer, og er slik sett en forsvarstale...
London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Nearly 30 and ‘rather moth-eaten already,’ a poet whose one small book of verse has fallen ‘flatter than any pancake,’ Gordon has given up a...
Orwell’s moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change. The Lion and the Unicorn was written in London during the worst period of the blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his...