Just to show that virtually no author escaped the wave of sexulaized art that swept over publishing during the 1950s, here are two pimped out book covers for George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London and 1984. Orwell was already a literary immortal by the time these editions hit the streets, but hey—it’s never too late for an extreme makeover. The covers aren’t dishonest, per-se, but trying to make these two extremely important books look like John D. MacDonald capers is a bit sly. But at least we know the publishers took the propagandist lessons of 1984 to heart. From the age of doublethink—greetings!