{"product_id":"george-orwell-visions-of-dystopia-9781839644740","title":"George Orwell Visions of Dystopia","description":"Orwell is most well-known for his two famous novels \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c\/i\u003e, but their dystopian vision was informed by observations of poverty in England (\u003ci\u003eDown and Out in Paris' and London\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRoad to Wigan Pier\u003c\/i\u003e), and disillusion with political and national events of the 1930s and 1940s. \u003ci\u003eHomage to Catalonia\u003c\/i\u003e chronicled his experience of the Spanish Civil War and formulated his revulsion against totalitarianism, highlighted in his subsequent novels. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new collection (edited and with a new introduction by Professor Richard Bradford, and a foreword by Whitbread Prize winner D.J. Taylor) brings together Orwell's two celebrated novels and some of his seminal nonfiction (extensive extracts from \u003ci\u003eDown and Out in Paris and London\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Wigan Pier\u003c\/i\u003e, and the whole of \u003ci\u003eHomage to Catalonia\u003c\/i\u003e), along with some brief extracts of pertinent work by Jack London, who also explored totalitarianism in \u003ci\u003eThe Iron Heel\u003c\/i\u003e (fiction), and the Russian dissident Yevgeny Zamyatin whose own work \u003ci\u003eWe\u003c\/i\u003e (1921) offers a strong warning about a dystopian police state. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA new addition to the \u003cb\u003eFlame Tree deluxe Gothic Fantasy\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Orwell\u003c\/b\u003e, the pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, was born in Bengal, India, in 1903. He was educated at Eton, became a policeman in Burma but suffered and studied poverty. His great works, \u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e, are a product of his hatred of totalitarianism. His legacy of writing and political thought is much admired today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Bradford\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction, and Editor) is Research Professor at Ulster University and Visiting Professor at Avignon University. He has held posts at Oxford, the University of Wales and Trinity College, Dublin, and has published thirty-five books. Ten of these are literary biographies, including lives of Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Alan Sillitoe, Martin Amis, Ernest Hemingway, John Milton and most recently the widely-acclaimed \u003ci\u003eOrwell: A Man of Our Time\u003c\/i\u003e (2020). His life of Patricia Highsmith will appear on the centenary of her birth in 2021. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eD.J. Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword) is the author of \u003ci\u003eOrwell: The Life\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Whitbread Biography Prize in 2003, as well as the acclaimed biography Thackeray (1999). The most recent of his eleven novels are The Windsor Faction (2013), joint winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, \u003ci\u003eDerby Day\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), \u003ci\u003eAt the Chime of a City Clock\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), \u003ci\u003eAsk Alice\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) and \u003ci\u003eKept: A Victorian Mystery\u003c\/i\u003e (2006). Also well known as a critic and reviewer, David has published books on British fiction and writes for many UK and US newspapers and publications.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Flame Tree Collections","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50441119465746,"sku":"9781839644740","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d76e137f-6b1d-47c7-b3aa-d4c6eee2443b.jpg?v=1729664045","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/george-orwell-visions-of-dystopia-9781839644740","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}