George Orwell's book Visions of Dystopia - Flame Tree Publishing

Orwell is best known for his two famous novels, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, but their dystopian vision was supported by observations of poverty in England (Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier) as well as disappointment with political and national events of the 1930s and 1940s. Homage to Catalonia described his experiences from the Spanish Civil War and expressed his aversion to totalitarianism, which was further emphasized in his subsequent novels.

This new collection (edited and with a new introduction by Professor Richard Bradford and a foreword by Whitbread Award winner DJ Taylor) combines Orwell’s two renowned novels with some of his groundbreaking works of nonfiction (extensive excerpts from Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier and the entire Homage to Catalonia), along with several short passages from relevant works by Jack London, who also examined totalitarianism in The Iron Heel (fiction), and Russian dissident Yevgeny Zamyatin, whose work We (1921) serves as a serious warning against a dystopian police state.

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