FICTION
Released: Aug. 26, 1946
"MPSLUGMISTER Orwell's animals exist in their own right, with a narrative as individual as it is apt in political parody."
A modern day fable, with modern implications in a deceiving simplicity, by the author of Dickens.
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FICTION
Released: June 13, 1949
"Certain to create interest, comment, and consideration."
The Book-of-the-Month Club dual selection, with John Gunther's
Behind the Curtain (1949), for July, this projects life under perfected state controls.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 25, 1934
"And the story itself is not particularly worth telling."
FICTION
Released: Jan. 10, 1950
A very different dish of tea from his earlier Animal Farm and recent Nineteen Eighty Four both of which instigated aroused controversy, is this book which was published in England before the war.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 27, 1950
"For the selective reader as well as his established followers."
A collection of eighteen essays by the author of Nineteen Eighty Four and Animal Farm, etc. these represent the last of his finished work.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 26, 1953
"People, places, events and attitudes- are all caught and observed with honesty and a distillation of meaning that gives these 11 inclusions their appeal."
Collected from 1939 on, these are essays and autobiographical pieces, which while contemplative in tone, are not contended and should be welcomed by the audience Orwell has claimed.
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