Orwell`s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Biography | Goldsmith Book Prize 2025 Winner (Trade) | A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 | A BBC History Magazine Book of the YearWith Orwell claimed by all sides of the culture wars, returning to his own world and words offers sharp and surprising lessons for today`s crises. Seventy-five years after 1984  first published, George Orwell is back. Progressives denounce `Orwellian` untruths by Trump, Johnson, Putin et al, while conservatives accuse governments and mainstream media of `Orwellian` censorship.

But what does `Orwellian` really mean? What would the man himself say about these crises, and what can we learn from his ideas?Orwell`s Ghosts  reveals Orwell in all his complexity, exploring his commitment to political liberty and economic justice alongside his undeniable chauvinism. This sharp free thinker`s commentaries remain invaluable, whether on political truth, disinformation, class, race and empire, or highlighting the promise of socialism and the dangerous appeal of authoritarianism. Even Orwell`s misogyny offers troubling lessons about gender politics on the left.

All of his books show remarkable resonance between the first half of the twentieth century and today`s world. Revisiting Orwell`s own age of rapid change and urgent crossroads, this book sheds unique light on both our recent past and our current upheavals.

• Autor: Laura Beers
• Wydawnictwo C Hurst & Co Publishers
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Rok wydania: 2025
• Ilość stron: 240
• Stan: nowy, pełnowartościowy produkt
• Model: 9781805264392
• ISBN: 9781805264392
• EAN: 9781805264392
• Wymiary: 19.8 x 13 x 1.7 cm