English writer George Orwell (real name Eric Arthur Blair) entered literary history primarily as the author of the famous satirical fairy tale and parable Animal Farm (1945), which parodies and satirizes the events and consequences of the Russian Revolution, and of the novel 1984 (1948, published 1949), which develops the ideas of this fairy tale and, along with Yevgeny Zamyatin's We and Alfred Huxley's Brave New World, became one of the most important dystopian books of the twentieth century. However, alongside fiction, a significant—and no less interesting—part of Orwell's creative legacy is made up of journalistic and critical writings. This collection includes selected articles, essays, notes, and reviews by the writer, in which culture, science, art, and literature are examined in close connection with political and social history.