TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beers,Laura
TI  - Orwell's ghosts: wisdom and warnings for the twenty-first century 
SN  - 1324075082
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Orwell, George,
KW  - Truthfulness and falsehood
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-227) and index
N2  - In Orwell's Ghosts, historian Laura Beers considers Orwell's full body of work--his six novels, three nonfiction works, and brilliant essays on politics, language, and the class system--to examine what "Orwellian" truly means and reveal the misconstrued thinker in all his complexity. She explores how Orwell's writing on free speech addresses the proliferation of "fake news" and the emergence of cancel culture, highlights his vivid critiques of capitalism and the oppressive nature of the British Empire, and, in contrast, analyzes his failure to understand feminism
ER  -