In Front of Your Nose: 1946-1950

"What I have most wanted to do... is to make political writing into an art." --George Orwell

During the post-war years, Orwell published many of his greatest essays, "You and the Atomic Bomb", "Politics and the English Language," "The Prevention of Literature," and "Why I Write." All these, and more, are included here--along with correspondence and other pieces that provide fascinating insight into Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell wrote it while suffering from tuberculous and died in 1950, the year after its publication. This collection of writing, and the preceding three volumes, however, create the astonishing record of an imperishable mind.