They tell the stories of those who have shaped our present and our past, from Beethoven to Dietrich, from Einstein to Churchill. This is one title in a series of short, illustrated biographies. During his last years he turned to allegory and fantasy to produce Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four , the two books that were to make him world famous. George Orwell (1903-1949) wrote seminal reportage on the conditions of the poor - such as Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier - and was one of the first critics to write seriously about popular culture. Из серии: Life & Times
2003. Politically provocative, after his death he became an icon both for the left and the right at the cost of obscuring the realities of his achievements.