George Orwell, edited by Peter Davison, intro. by Christopher Hitchens. Norton/Liveright, $39.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-871-40410-7 Reviewed by David Brooks. George Orwell has become a literary saint ...
John Rodden: I’ve written three books about Orwell and the most recent ... Let’s begin with a little bio of George Orwell. Let’s go into what he believed and then let us play that wonderful ...
For many, “1984” by George Orwell is one of those books. “1984” is set in the totalitarian state of Oceania, where war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength. Citizens ...
George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm is to be translated into Scots. The book is one of nine titles ... on Scottish linguistic culture." Orwell wrote his best-known work, 1984, while living ...
Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one ... In Homage to Catalonia he attempted to write an objective account of the Spanish War. In this book--I think it was his best--his ...
While in Southwold, Orwell wrote the 1935 novel A Clergyman's Daughter, which is set in a fictionalised version of the town. PA/Penguin books George Orwell's novel 1984 is regarded as a classic of ...
The author, George Orwell, published Animal Farm in 1945 ... Writers choose words and phrases carefully when they write. Readers can look closely at texts to think about how and why the writer ...
which is certainly one of the few first-hand and really excellent pieces of fiction that have been written about India since Kipling. Orwell’s book is not the set piece and tour de force that E.