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 in England (
Down and Out in Paris' and London and
Road to Wigan Pier), and disillusion with political and national events of the 1930s and 1940s.
Homage to Catalonia chronicled his experience of the Spanish Civil War and formulated his revulsion against totalitarianism, highlighted in his subsequent novels.
The new collection (with Professor Richard Bradford's new introduction, and a foreword by Whitbread Prize winner D.J. Taylor) brings together his celebrated novels and seminal non-fiction, with work that influenced him by Jack London, who also explored poverty and totalitarian in
The Iron Heel (fiction)
The People of the Abyss (non-fiction), and the Russian dissident Yevgeny Zamyatin whose own work
We (1921) offers a strong warning about a dystopian police state.
A new addition to the
Flame Tree deluxe Gothic Fantasy series on classic and modern writers, exploring origins and cultural themes in myth, fable and speculative fiction. The Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy, Classic Stories and Epic Tales collections bring together the entire range of myth, folklore and modern short fiction. Highlighting the roots of suspense, supernatural, science fiction and mystery stories, the books in Flame Tree Collections series are beautifully presented, perfect as a gift and offer a lifetime of reading pleasure.
