Collects critical essays written by George Orwell in the 1940s, in which he discusses the work of Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, T. S. Eliot, Salvador Dali, and others; and also covers propaganda, politics, and more.
Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth in the future political entity of Oceania, puts his life on the line when he joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the totalitarian regime that controls all human thought and action.
A satire of the Soviet Union in which the animals take over running a farm, but find their utopain state turning into a dictatorship. Features 100 illustrations by artist Ralph Steadman, and Orwell's previously unpublished preface to the original edition.