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From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20030525
Author:IAN THOMSON

GEORGE ORWELL

Gordon Bowker

Little, Brown GBP 20

GEORGE ORWELL: THE LIFE

DJ Taylor

Chatto & Windus GBP 20

IN THIS centenary year of his birth, George Orwell remains a discomforting literary presence. Few writers have looked so intently at the moral state of man, or the nightmare of totalitarian dominance. Orwell's last novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, warned: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face." It was published in 1949, when Stalin was imposing his own kind of truth as surely as Orwell's Big Brother. One year later, Orwell was dead of tuberculosis: ...

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