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The essential backstory to the creation and meaning of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century—and now the twenty-first. Since its publication nearly seventy years ago, George Orwell's  1984  has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about it, TV viewers watch a reality show named for it, and a White House spokesperson tells of "alternative facts." The world we live in is often described as an Orwellian one, awash in inescapable surveillance and invasions of privacy. On Nineteen Eighty-Four dives deep into Orwell's life to chart his earlier writings and key moments in his youth, such as his years at a boarding school, whose strict and charismatic headmaster shaped the idea of Big Brother. Taylor tells the story of the writing of the book, taking readers to the Scottish island of Jura, where Orwell, newly famous thanks to  Animal Farm  but coping with personal tragedy and rapidly declining health, struggled to finish  1984 . Published during the cold war—a term Orwell coined—Taylor elucidates the environmental influences o

Author

D. J. Taylor

Publisher

New York, NY: Abrams Press, an imprint of ABRAMS

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781683356844

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Literary Criticism