The Cambridge companion to George Orwell
| Other Authors: | Rodden, John. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Physical Description: |
xvi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series: |
Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-210) and index. Notes on contributors -- Preface / John Rodden -- Chronology -- 1. A political writer / John Rossi and John Rodden -- 2. Orwell and the biographers / Gordon Bowker -- 3. Englands his Englands / Jonathan Rose -- 4. The truths of experience : Orwell's nonfiction of the 1930s / Margery Sabin -- 5. The fictional realist : novels of the 1930s / Michael Levenson -- 6. Orwell's essays as a literary experience / William E. Cain -- 7. 'My country, right or left' : Orwell's patriotism / John Rossi -- 8. Orwell and the British Left / Ian Williams -- 9. Orwell, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust / John Newsinger -- 10. Orwell, socialism and the Cold War / Robert Conquest -- 11. Animal farm : history as fable / Morris Dickstein -- 12. Nineteen eighty-four : context and controversy / Bernard Crick -- 13. Orwell, the academy and the intellectuals / Neil McLaughlin -- 14. Orwell for today's reader : an open letter / John Rodden -- 15. George Orwell : a bibliographic essay / Erika Gottlieb -- 16. Why Orwell still matters / Christopher Hitchens -- Further reading -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: |
xvi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-210) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780521858427 0521858429 9780521675079 0521675073 |