George Orwell

Questo volume offre al pubblico italiano tre importanti inediti di George Orwell: i Diari di guerra, il celebre saggio Il leone e l'unicorno e le appassionate Lettere da Londra, scritte per la rivista socialista americana "Partisan Review". Meno noti rispetto alle opere di narrativa orwelliane, questi scritti ci …

George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected--and illuminated--the fraught times in which he lived. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George Packer in his foreword, "it was as natural for Orwell to propose, …