Author: George OrwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Complete Works of George Orwell: Two wasted years, 1943
Author: George OrwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Complete Works of George Orwell: Two wasted years (1943)
Author: George OrwellTwo Wasted Years
Author: George OrwellPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0436404095
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This volume shows how much George Orwell achieved during his Two wasted years at the BBC. It covers the programmes broadcast that were either written by Orwell or had his input in some form or other. The book contains reviews, essays, and a printing of The Detective Story in French.
Two Wasted Years
Author: George OrwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Complete Works of George Orwell: Two wasted years, 1943
Author: George OrwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Two Wasted Years
Author: George OrwellPublisher: Harvill Secker
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Writing to Philip Rahv on 9 December 1943, Orwell described his time at the BBC as 'two wasted years', yet this volume continues to show how much he achieved. Among the educational series in this period were those devoted to new developments in science, modern English verse, great dramatists, and psychology; there were series, such as 'Books That Changed the World' which included broadcast talks on great books from East and West. Among those who broadcast for Orwell were John Lehmann, V. S. Pritchett and Stephen Spender. Oliver Bell, Director of the British Film Instistute, took over film reviewing, and the series of shortened versions of Indian plays continued. Orwell adapted four 'featurised stories', and broadcast talks on MACBETH and LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN. He continued to broadcast to Malaya and wrote and read news commentaries for Indonesia. He wrote over a dozen reviews, several essays, and a long study, 'The Detective Story' printed here for the first time in its original French version and in an English translation.The volume concludes with two appendices: the devastating report by the Intelligence Officer, Laurence Brander on the ineffectiveness of the BBC's broadcasting service to India; and, Orwell's preparatory notes for 'The Quick & the Dead' and 'The Last Man in Europe'.
Orwell in Context
Author: B. ClarkePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230591124
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This bold new reading of Orwell's work focuses upon his representation of communities and the myths that shape them. It analyzes his interpretations of class, gender and nationality within the context of the period. The book uses a range of texts to argue that Orwell attempted to integrate 'traditional' communal identities with socialist politics.
The Complete Works of George Orwell
Author: George OrwellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780436203770
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Lost Orwell
Author: George OrwellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781857252149
Category : Authors' spouses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of George Orwell's previously unpublished letters, documents and photographs.
Orwell and Marxism
Author: Philip BoundsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 085773282X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Whether as a fighter in the Spanish Civil War, an advocate of patriotic Socialism or a left-wing opponent of the Soviet Union, George Orwell was the ultimate outsider in politics - insecure, scornful of orthodoxies, cussedly independent. Best known today as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell also wrote seven other full-length books and and a vast number of essays, articles and reviews. A pioneering cultural critic, he addressed a range of important issues including art, literature, 'Englishness', mass communication and the spectre of totalitarianism. Famously describing his own background as 'lower-upper-middle class', Orwell had a complex relationship with Marxism and all his work reflects the influence of British communism. In this thoughtful and original study Philip Bounds argues that Orwell's writings effectively took the form of a dialogue with the leading British Marxists of his day. Bounds shows that Orwell often agreed with the Marxists and built on their insights in his writings, while on other occasions he used his disagreements with them as the basis of his own critical position. Through close analysis of Orwell's writings as well as his historical and literary context, Bounds has produced an important study of one of the iconic writers of the 20th century. 'Orwell and Marxism' offers a thorough introduction to Orwell the intellectual, reviving his reputation as a serious cultural thinker and documenting his most important influences, as well as a convincing portrait of British Marxism and society in the 1930s and 40s.