The Cambridge companion to George Orwell
2007
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George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer of the 20th century. This companion addresses the central themes of his work, examining his prose style, patriotism, his positions on war and pacifism and his stance on communism.
Main title:
The Cambridge companion to George Orwell / edited by John Rodden.
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Imprint:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Collation:
xvi, 218 p. : ill ; 24cm.
Notes:
Formerly CIP.Includes index.Includes bibliographical references ((p. 208-210) and index).
Contents:
A political writer / John Rossi and John RoddenOrwell and. the biographers / Gordon BowkerEnglands his Englands / Jonathan RoseThe truths of experience : Orwell's nonfiction of the 1930s / Margery SabinThe fictional realist : novels of the 1930s / Michael LevensonOrwell's essays as a literary experience / William E. Cain'My country, right or left' : Orwell's patriotism / John RossiOrwell and the British Left / Ian WilliamsOrwell, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust / John NewsingerOrwell, socialism and the Cold War / Robert ConquestAnimal farm : history as fable / Morris DicksteinNineteen eighty-four : context and controversy / Bernard CrickOrwell, the academy and the intellectuals / Neil McLaughlinOrwell for today's reader : an open letter / John RoddenGeorge Orwell : a bibliographic essay / Erika GottliebWhy Orwell still matters / Christopher Hitchens.
ISBN:
0521858429 (pbk)9780521675079 (pbk)0521675073 (pbk)9780521858427 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.912823.912828.91209823.ORWE
Language:
English
BRN:
2074501
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