Can Socialists be Happy?

Author: Orwell, George

c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)

Published on 17 April 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Archive' series.

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksNo thinking person can or does genuinely keep out of politics, in an age like the present oneUnfailingly wise and often startlingly prophetic, George Orwell’s essays are masterpieces of plain English prose. This stirring new collection brings together his most cherished pieces with lesser-known gems, ranging over everything from tree planting to living with the atom bomb, sleeping rough to the perils of getting what you want in politics.