title: In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950 (Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Vol 4)
author: George Orwell
description: Volume IV covers the years from the publication of Animal Farm to Orwell's death: years shadowed by increaing ill-health. During this time he tried to drop much of his journalism and concentrate on writing Nineteen Eighty-Four, his last book. But in these years he produced many of his finest essays, continued his analysis of the post-war world in articles for the Tribune and other papers and wrote one of his rare straight piees of autobiography in "Such, Such Were the Joys", a description of his private school and a condemnation of such education. It is fascinating to see so many of his worries about events in the post-war world confirmed by their outcome today.
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  NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
  
  
  GEORGE ORWELL
  
  
  
  
  
  PART I
  
  
  I
  
  
  It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
  Winston Smith, hischin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile
  wind, slipped quickly through the glassdoors of Victory Mansions, though not
  quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from enteringalong with
  him.too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted
  simply an enormous face, moreThe hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag
  mats. At one end of it a coloured poster,than a metre wide: the face of a man
  of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache andruggedly handsome
  features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at
  thehours. It was part of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week. The
  flat was seven flights up,best of times it was seldom working, and at present
  the electric current was cut off during daylightand Winston, who was thirty-
  nine and ha