George Orwell: A Reader's GuideA spirited and essential companion to Orwell and his works, covering all the novels and major essays. An intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn't trust the stateour foremost political essayist and author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four was a man of stark, puzzling contradictions. Knowing Orwell's life and reading Orwell's works produces just as many questions as it answers. Celebrated Orwell biographer D. J. Taylor guides