The Orwell reader : fiction, essays, and reportage /
Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
The Orwell reader : fiction, essays, and reportage / George Orwell ; with an introduction by Richard H. Rovere. - San Diego : Harcourt, Brace, c1984. - xxi, 456 p. ; 21 cm. - A Harvest book .
Prologue in Burma: Shooting an elephant -- A hanging -- From Burmese days -- The thirties: From Down and out in Paris and London -- How the poor die -- From A clergyman's daughter -- From Keep the aspidistra flying -- From The road to Wigan Pier -- From Homage to Catalonia -- From Coming up for air -- World War II and after: From The lion and the unicorn: socialism and the English genius -England your England -- Rudyard Kipling -- Politics vs. literature: an examination of "Gulliver's travels" -- Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool -- In defense of P.G. Wodehouse -- Reflections on Gandhi -- Second thoughts on James Burnham -- Politics and the English language -- The prevention of literature -- "I write as I please": Decline of the English murder ; Some thoughts on the common toad ; A good word for the vicar of Bray -- Why I write -- From Nineteen eighty-four -- "Such, such were the joys..." [1.] [2.] [3.]
0156701766 9780156701761
61001439
English literature--20th century.
The Orwell reader : fiction, essays, and reportage / George Orwell ; with an introduction by Richard H. Rovere. - San Diego : Harcourt, Brace, c1984. - xxi, 456 p. ; 21 cm. - A Harvest book .
Prologue in Burma: Shooting an elephant -- A hanging -- From Burmese days -- The thirties: From Down and out in Paris and London -- How the poor die -- From A clergyman's daughter -- From Keep the aspidistra flying -- From The road to Wigan Pier -- From Homage to Catalonia -- From Coming up for air -- World War II and after: From The lion and the unicorn: socialism and the English genius -England your England -- Rudyard Kipling -- Politics vs. literature: an examination of "Gulliver's travels" -- Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool -- In defense of P.G. Wodehouse -- Reflections on Gandhi -- Second thoughts on James Burnham -- Politics and the English language -- The prevention of literature -- "I write as I please": Decline of the English murder ; Some thoughts on the common toad ; A good word for the vicar of Bray -- Why I write -- From Nineteen eighty-four -- "Such, such were the joys..." [1.] [2.] [3.]
0156701766 9780156701761
61001439
English literature--20th century.