Personal as well as political, Orwell's letters offer a fascinating window into the mind of a phenomenal man. We are privy to snatched glimpses of his family life: his son...
George Orwell
George Orwell: A Bibliography
This study examines how George Orwell's legacy as a writer developed, and the importance of his work both during and after his lifetime.
Describes the life of twentieth-century British writer George Orwell, and profiles his novels "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four," that discusses plotlines, characters, themes, motifs, symbols, and criticism. Includes a chronology,...
... Homage to Catalonia. He praised the book “as an honest, vivid, personal account of one man's bitter experience in ... Oceania. Ohio State University Press, 1969. Matthews, Herbert. “Homage to Catalonia.” Nation, 27 Dec. 1952, pp. 597–599 ...
... Homage to Oceania : The Prophetic Vision of George Orwell , Ohio University , 1969 , p . 81 . 19. Richard Johnstone , p . 125 . 20. Quoted by Shankar Narayan Prasad , p . 142 . 21 . Steinhof , p . 128 . 22. Ibid . , p . 131 . 23. Keep ...
... Orwell turning in his grave at the lack of respect and understanding shown his work by the screenwriters and directors? Or is it simply that a translation ... Screen: The Film Versions of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four Erika Gottlieb.
George Orwell: Into the Twenty-first Century
Ten years after first publication this new edition of the book, which significantly extends the argument, is still a challenge to conventional thinking about Orwell, showing him to be remarkably dependent upon the Protestant/Puritan ...
Volume of literary criticism concerning the life and works of British writer George Orwell.
George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality is the first book written by a philosopher about George Orwell's philosophy, especially his ethics.
... outright barbarous,' in which prescription 'barbarous' carries both its human and its grammatical weight. This view of language as the essential, the threatened locale of truth and political freedom determined Orwell's literary opinions ...
Less known is the turbulent life story of the popular novelist, from his birth in India as Eric Arthur Blair to his struggle to complete 1984 while suffering from tuberculosis, the disease that would kill him two years after the book's ...
George Orwell was one of the greatest writers England produced in the last century.
This work assesses George Orwell's political writing, examining how his democratic socialism developed and changed in the 1930s and 40s.