Author: West, W J
Title: The Larger Evils - Nighteen Eighty Four The Truth Behind The Satire
Description: Canongate Press, 1992, 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/F. xvi+207pp, 8pp b/w plates, index, a nice fine copy. New. Hardback with dustjacket. ISBN: 0862413826 ¶ 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.

Keywords: ISBN 0862413826, 1894, orwell, satire, literature, literary criticism 0862413826