Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction β¦
Review of 'George Orwell (Penguin Modern Classics)' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Full of wisdom, humour, courage, and truth.
Contents of the edition I read (edited by [a:Bernard Crick|85342|Bernard Crick|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1334032506p2/85342.jpg] and published by Penguin Modern Classics):
1. Why I Write
2. The Spike
3. A Hanging
4. Shooting an Elephant
5. Bookshop Memories
6. Marrakech
7. [a:Charles Dickens|239579|Charles Dickens|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1387078070p2/239579.jpg]
8. Boys' Weeklies
9. Inside the Whale
10. My Country Right or Left
11. The Lion and the Unicorn
12. Wells, Hitler and the World State
13. The Art of Donald McGill
14. [a:Rudyard Kipling|6989|Rudyard Kipling|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1550677494p2/6989.jpg]
15. Looking Back on the Spanish War
16. [a:W.B. Yeats|29963|W.B. Yeats|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1440689155p2/29963.jpg]
17. Poetry and the Microphone
18. In Defense of English Cooking
19. Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on [a:Salvador DalΓ|165858|Salvador DalΓ|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1218295974p2/165858.jpg]
20. Raffles and Miss Blandish
21. [a:Arthur Koestler|17219|Arthur Koestler|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1256757331p2/17219.jpg]
22. Antisemitism in Britain
23. In Defense of [a:P.G. Wodehouse|7963|P.G. Wodehouse|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1198684105p2/7963.jpg]
24. Notes on Nationalism
25. Good Bad Books
26. The Sporting Spirit
27. Nonsense Poetry
28. The Prevention of Literature
29. Books v. Cigarettes
30. Decline of the English Murder
31. Politics and the English Language
32. Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
33. A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray
34. Confessions of a Book Reviewer
35. Politics vs Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels
36. How the Poor Die
37. Riding Down from Bangor
38. Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
39. Such, Such Were the Joys
40. Writers and Leviathan
41. Reflections on Gandhi