"For those living in the Soviet Union, Orwell's masterpieces Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four were not dystopias, but accurate fictional descriptions of reality. Here, the Orwell scholar and Russian political expert Masha Karp - head of the BBC's Russian Service for nearly a decade - explores how Orwell's work was received in Russia, and how it affects the political reality of totalitarianism today. The book reveals for the first time new contextual...

"In the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers who as young women turned to communism during the Great Depression. Over decades of national crisis, they spoke to issues of labor, land, and love in ways that provide thought-provoking guidance and bracing inspiration in the ongoing fight for justice"--

The Heirs of Jane Austen emphasizes the uniqueness, the similarity, and the diversity in the social comedies of three British writers of the early twentieth century working in the tradition of Jane Austen - Edward F. Benson, E.M. Delafield, and Angela Thirkell. This work demonstrates the enduring charm and appeal of these social interactions that have become social history.