04145nam 2200733Ia 450 991081224840332120200520144314.01-107-22531-01-139-36554-11-280-77486-X97866136852541-139-37807-41-139-37521-01-139-04568-71-139-37122-31-139-37664-01-139-37950-X(CKB)2670000000205104(EBL)880652(OCoLC)796214813(SSID)ssj0000687634(PQKBManifestationID)11426331(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000687634(PQKBWorkID)10735995(PQKB)10171253(UkCbUP)CR9781139045681(Au-PeEL)EBL880652(CaPaEBR)ebr10578248(CaONFJC)MIL368525(OCoLC)796796385(MiAaPQ)EBC880652(PPN)183559576(EXLCZ)99267000000020510420120103d2012 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Cambridge introduction to George Orwell /John Rodden, John Rossi1st ed.Cambridge ;New York Cambridge University Press20121 online resource (xiv, 130 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge introductions to literatureTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-13255-X 0-521-76923-X Machine generated contents note: Chronology; Introduction; Part I. Life and Context: 1. Background and school days; 2. Burma and the wasted years; 3. The struggle to become a writer; 4. Orwell's breakthrough; 5. Spain and Orwell's political education; 6. Orwell's war; 7. Last years; Part II. Works: 8. Burmese Days; 9. A Clergyman's Daughter; 10. Keep the Aspidistra Flying; 11. Coming Up for Air; 12. Down and Out in Paris and London; 13. The Road to Wigan Pier; 14. Homage to Catalonia; 15. Orwell, the essayist; 16. A Hanging and Shooting an Elephant; 17. Inside the Whale; 18. Critical Essays; 19. Animal Farm; 20. Nineteen Eighty-Four; Part III. Critical Reception: 21. Starting out in the 1930s; 22. Critical controversy and popular success; 23. Posthumous fame; 24. 'Countdown' to 1-9-8-4; 25. Orwell in the twenty-first century; 26. An afterlife nonpareil; 27. 'If Orwell were alive today'; 28. A reputation evergreen; Select bibliography.Arguably the most influential political writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains a crucial voice for our times. Known world-wide for his two best-selling masterpieces Nineteen Eighty-Four, a gripping portrait of a dystopian future, and Animal Farm, a brilliant satire on the Russian Revolution, Orwell has been revered as an essayist, journalist and literary-political intellectual, and his works have exerted a powerful international impact on the post-World War Two era. This Introduction examines Orwell's life, work and legacy, addressing his towering achievement and his ongoing appeal. Combining important biographical detail with close analysis of his writings, the book considers the various genres in which Orwell wrote: the realistic novel, the essay, journalism and the anti-utopia. Ideally suited for readers approaching Orwell's work for the first time, the book concludes with an extended reflection on why George Orwell has enjoyed a literary afterlife unprecedented among modern authors in any language.Cambridge introductions to literature.Authors, English20th centuryBiographyAuthors, English828/.91209BLIT004120bisacshRodden John166124Rossi John1936-763274MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812248403321Cambridge introduction to George Orwell1548369UNINA