Gothic Fantasy George Orwell Visions of Dystopia

Orwell is best known for Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, but their dystopian vision was shaped by what came before: his observations of poverty in Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier, and his disillusionment with the political upheavals of the 1930s and 1940s. His experience of the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia, hardened into a revulsion against totalitarianism that runs through his later work. This collection sits within Flame Tree's Gothic Fantasy, Classic Stories and Epic Tales series, which draws together myth, folklore and short fiction rooted in suspense, the supernatural and speculative storytelling, presented as a handsome edition worth returning to.