This major new collection brings together the best of George Orwell's powerful political essays and journalism with his evergreen satire on totalitarianism, Animal Farm. They show the vast range of his political interests, with articles expressing his views on subjects from corrupt political language to the oppressive British Empire; his masterly wartime Socialist polemic, 'The Lion and the Unicorn'; a wry review of Mein Kampf; a defence of Nineteen Eighty-Four; and extracts from his controversial list of 'Crypto-communists'. These writings are testament to Orwell's lifelong passion for politics, for telling unpalatable truths and exposing injustice, yet doing so with wit and humanity: in his words, making 'political writing into an art'.
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Fue novelista, periodista, crítico literario y articulista. Hoy se le considera uno de los mayores autores en lengua inglesa del siglo XX. Participó en la Guerra Civil española y formuló una dura crítica del estalinismo desde posiciones socialistas. Sus obras 1984 y Rebelión en la granja se han convertido en un referente histórico por su contundente oposición a los totalitarismos.