The Books That Haunt Us

Those who are regular readers  -- or  those who are addicted  to books -- may have their own favorite titles from years or decades past and they often go back to re-read  their favorites. George Orwell said that there was never a year went by  that he didn't re-read parts of Gulliver's Travels.

Echoes of Gulliver's Travels may appear in Orwell's Animal Farm, published in 1945.

The Books That Haunt Us is a tour de force analysis of 18 exceptional  books - -14 widely known;  three that deserve reading and one  impossible to find that contriubuted to the succes of  Orwell's 1984.

Thomas Fensch has been publishing books for 50 years; his first three were published in 1970; since 1970, he had published 40 nonfiction titles.