03164cam a2200277 i 4500 114371 20230410132615.0 140207s2012 nyua 000 0 eng 9780521132558 Eng. PR 6029 R686c 2012 Rodden, John. The Cambridge introdution to George Orwell / John Rodden and John Rossi New York : Cambridge University Press , 2012 xiv, 130 p. ; 23 cm. Cambridge introductions to literature. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- 1. 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. 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"--"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"-- Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Literary criticism Critica literaria. John, Rossi lcc bk dpf 84567 84567 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 1 0 PR 6029 R686c 2012 00000102980 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 bk