From Burma to Big Brother: George Orwell’s best books – ranked!
From frontline reporting to a trailblazing comic novel and a prophetic dystopia, which of Eric Blair’s books is the best?Imagination was not George Orwell’s forte. In each novel the protagonist is to some extent an Orwell surrogate doing things that Orwell did in places where Orwell had been. Here, somewhat unconvincingly, the author’s representative is a repressed young woman, Dorothy Hare, who loses her memory, identity and faith. Orwell considered it “tripe” except for the dream-like, polyphonic chapter where Dorothy…
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