![]() Orwell was flooded with congratulations from the world’s greatest writers, and the book sold briskly in England and abroad. These extraordinary literary exertions ended in triumph: Nineteen Eighty-Four was an immediate sensation, and its high literary quality and importance were recognized at once. Orwell, who was sick with tuberculosis, labored away on his manuscript when he was not confined to bed or collapsed over his typewriter. The setting was a bleak one – a ramshackle farmhouse on the remote island of Jura, during one of the coldest winters of the century. ![]() In his highly compelling, deeply researched novel The Last Man in Europe - the title Orwell almost gave Nineteen Eighty Four - Dennis Glover tells the dramatic story of an author, in the twilight of his life, composing the greatest of his literary works. Nineteen Eighty-Four, one of the masterpieces of world literature, would give us “Big Brother,” “thought police,” and a chilling vision of what was to come in the second half of the 20th century - and beyond. By the end of 1948, Orwell had finished the manuscript, and he flipped the last two digits of the year to come up with its famous title. ![]() ![]() In the spring of 1947, with Nazism defeated in Europe and Stalinism on the rise, George Orwell left London for the Scottish Isles to write a novel about totalitarianism. ![]()
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