Skip to content
Skip to main content

About this free course

Download this course

Share this free course

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

Start this free course now. Just create an account and sign in. Enrol and complete the course for a free statement of participation or digital badge if available.

Further reading

Orwell wrote regularly for the Observer from 1942 until 1948. Orwell: The Observer Years (published in 2004 by Atlantic Books) is a selection of Orwell’s news reporting, book reviews and opinion pieces.
Orwell’s letters, essays and the full text of Homage to Catalonia, are brought together in a single volume Orwell in Spain (published in 2001 by Penguin Classics).
Orwell political writing including essays, and journalism and the full text of Animal Farm are brought together in a single volume Orwell and Politics (published in 2001 by Penguin Classics).
Orwell’s impressionistic account of working-class life in industrial Yorkshire and Lancashire, The Road to Wigan Pier was first published in 1937 and was re-published by Penguin Classics in 2001.
Orwell: The Life by DJ Taylor and George Orwell by George Bowker were both first published in 2003. Both authors provide a detailed account of Orwell’s time in Spain.
The Ministry of Truth by Dorian Lynskey was published in 2019. Lynskey’s focus is on Nineteen Eighty-Four. He explores Orwell’s motivations and influences and he explores the novel itself from a number of angles – and the novel’s enduring appeal.