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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Rodden, John. Cambridge introduction to George Orwell. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012 (DLC) 2012000082 (OCoLC)765812586 |
Named Person: | George Orwell; George Orwell; George Orwell |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Rodden; John Rossi |
ISBN: | 9781139379502 113937950X 128077486X 9781280774867 9781139045681 1139045687 |
OCLC Number: | 796796385 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 130 pages). |
Contents: | Introduction -- 1I. Life and Context: Background and school days; Burma and the wasted years; The struggle to become a writer; Literary breakthrough; Spain and Orwell's political education; Orwell's war; Last years -- 2. Works: Burmese Days; A Clergyman's Daughter; Keep the Aspidistra Flying; Coming Up for Air; Down and Out in Paris and London; The Road to Wigan Pier; Homage to Catalonia; Orwell, the essayist; "A Hanging" and "Shooting an Elephant"; Inside the Whale; Critical Essays; Animal Farm; Nineteen Eighty-Four -- 3. Critical Reception: Starting out in the 1930s; Critical controversy and popular success; Posthumous fame; "Countdown" to 1-9-8-4; Orwell in the twenty-first century; An afterlife nonpareil; "If Orwell were alive today ... "; A reputation evergreen. |
Series Title: | Cambridge introductions to literature. |
Responsibility: | John Rodden and John Rossi. |
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Abstract:
An introductory guide to the life, work and legacy of George Orwell - one of the most influential literary twentieth-century figures.
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