The Orwell reader : fiction, essays, and reportage / George Orwell ; with an introduction by Richard H. Rovere.
Material type: TextSeries: A Harvest bookPublication details: San Diego : Harcourt, Brace, c1984.Description: xxi, 456 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0156701766
- 9780156701761
- Selections. 1984
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 828.91 O79 | Checked out | 05/13/2024 | 33111006011981 |
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Here is Orwell's work in all its remarkable range and variety. The selections in this anthology show how Orwell developed as writer and as thinker; inevitably, too, they reflect and illuminate the history of the time of troubles in which he lived and worked. "A magnificent tribute to the probity, consistency and insight of Orwell's topical writings" (Alfred Kazin). Introduction by Richard H. Rovere.
[1.] Prologue in Burma: Shooting an elephant -- A hanging -- From Burmese days -- [2.] 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 -- [3.] 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..."