![]() I made my way through his essay Why I Write soon after, and that love became an obsession. I picked up a copy of Keep The Aspidistra Flying in 2014 and fell in love with Orwell all over again, chastising myself for not reading more of his work sooner. Yet, until quite recently, I’d never expanded my knowledge of his repertoire, Animal Farm aside (a book on which I’m not that keen). In amongst all of the new books I devour as a keen reader, I come back to Nineteen Eighty-Four more than any other. Almost twenty years ago, it was Orwell’s bleak and oppressive totalitarian vision for the future of England that impressed upon me, more so than Huxley’s world of mass production, homogeneity, predictability, and consumption - despite this probably being the more prescient of the two. ![]() ![]() ![]() We’d likely refer to these novels if they were released today as speculative fiction. ![]() In an A-Level English Literature module, we critiqued his dystopian text alongside Aldous Huxley’s utopian Brave New World. I’ve loved George Orwell’s writing since I studied what is considered, by most, to be his defining work, Nineteen Eighty-Four. ![]()
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