George Orwell
Material type: TextSeries: New CasebooksPublication details: London Macmillan 1998Description: ix,260pISBN: 0333679792Subject(s): English Literature | English Poetry-history and criticismDDC classification: 821.91209 Summary: From a public school education, to service with the Imperial Police in Burma, to life as a tramp on the streets of Paris and London and action in the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell has remained a figure whose literary legacy is steeped in controversy. Orwell's creative and critical work has positioned him as both the champion of the political left and occasionally its enemy. This text establishes Orwell as more than a "voice of the left" and examines his enduring position in the English tradition. The essays in this volume study Orwell's love-hate relationship with England, together with his views on the British Empire, as well as offering readings of his classic texts, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Animal Farm".Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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821.912 TSE T. S. Eliot: four quartets: a casebook | 821.912 TSE T.S. Eliot: 'Prufrock', 'Gerontion', Ash Wednesday and other shorter poems: a casebook | 821.912080358 POE Poetry of the great war: an anthology | 821.91209 GEO George Orwell | 821.914 BAS/T Ted Hughes | 821.914 BEN/T Ted Hughes, class and violence | 821.914 HUG/N New selected poems 1957-1994 |
From a public school education, to service with the Imperial Police in Burma, to life as a tramp on the streets of Paris and London and action in the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell has remained a figure whose literary legacy is steeped in controversy. Orwell's creative and critical work has positioned him as both the champion of the political left and occasionally its enemy. This text establishes Orwell as more than a "voice of the left" and examines his enduring position in the English tradition. The essays in this volume study Orwell's love-hate relationship with England, together with his views on the British Empire, as well as offering readings of his classic texts, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Animal Farm".
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