Cover with an industrial background and "1984" spelled in bricks like part of a wall.

The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984

by Dorian Lynskey Author

This book presents an authoratitive history of George Orwell's 1984 that examines its literary sources, Orwell's writing, and the novels effect on the cold war and influence to the present day. This study of the classic and genre-defining dystopian novel shows how it draws on previous literature, Orwell's own post-War experience, and how its fictions have gone on to inform our understanding of history and our construction of the present.

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