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A Preface to Orwell

A Preface to Orwell

By: David Wykes

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George Orwell's place in our literary and cultural history showed no sign of diminution between 1950 when he died (and was buried under his original name Eric Blair) and the mystic year of 1984. He is still much discussed and read so that he is present in the mind's eye with his cigarette, and his typewriter pounding away. His numerous short works show him articulating virtually every idea that came into his head from toads to Tolstoy and a task that any interpreter has is to sort through this mass and present the core of these opinions as the central all-connecting threads in Orwell's meaning for posterity. David Wykes has presented these in a scholarly and evocative manner through the author's own words and his alert judgement as a specialist in the literature of the period. The core of this Preface will probably prove to be sections on 'Attitudes, beliefs and ideas' in Part One and the later supplement on 'Parties, movements, ideologies and events', since it is just here that the new reader is inclined to be hazy and imprecise. The studies of the two 'not really novels' are equally helpful.

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Weight 268 g
Dimensions 210 × 135 × 10 mm
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ISBN 0582351936

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