{"product_id":"george-orwells-visions-of-dystopia","title":"GEORGE ORWELL'S VISIONS OF DYSTOPIA","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOrwell is most well-known for his two famous novels \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, but their dystopian vision was informed by observations of poverty in England (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDown and Out in Paris' and London\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRoad to Wigan Pier\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), and disillusion with political and national events of the 1930s and 1940s. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHomage to Catalonia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e chronicled his experience of the Spanish Civil War and formulated his revulsion against totalitarianism, highlighted in his subsequent novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDown and Out in Paris and London\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Road to Wigan Pier\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and the whole of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHomage to Catalonia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), along with some brief extracts of pertinent work by Jack London, who also explored totalitarianism in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Iron Heel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (fiction), and the Russian dissident Yevgeny Zamyatin whose own work \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1921) offers a strong warning about a dystopian police state.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHARDBACK BOOK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Games and Stuff","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49017556893942,"sku":"SISC-9781839644740","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3303\/7465\/files\/81lTqhbh5jL._SL1500__1.jpg?v=1759883452","url":"https:\/\/www.gamesandstuffonline.com\/products\/george-orwells-visions-of-dystopia","provider":"Games and Stuff","version":"1.0","type":"link"}