A review of Lessons in George Orwell and Russia: 2+2=5, Masha Karp (Bloomsbury, 2023), £21.99 No 20th century British author has been more written about than Eric Arthur Blair, famous under his pen-name George Orwell. Still, for those interested in… Continue Reading
When the manuscript of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four landed on his desk in late 1948, writes a biographer, his publisher fired off an internal memorandum stating that it “represented ‘a deliberate and sadistic attack on socialism and socialist parties generally’.… Continue Reading
A review of Robert Colls, George Orwell: English Rebel (Oxford University Press, 2013), £25 At one point in his new study of George Orwell, Robert Colls, Professor of Cultural History at De Montfort University, insists that he is not trying… Continue Reading