Cloth, dj, F/F. xvi+207pp, 8pp b/w plates, index, a nice fine copy. New. Study of why Orwell chose to portray the drift towards totalitarianism in the way he did. Written on the lonely Island of Jura, his work touched upon many personal experiences - censorship, politics and government bureaucracy. Covers Postal censorship, the banning of Animal Farm in 1944, A comparison between the Ministry of Truth and the Ministry of Information, the Thought Police and MI5. 500 grams.