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A fresh account of the development and achievement of the novelist and essayist who became Britain's greatest political writer of modern times. George Orwell (1903-1950) is one of the most important, admired, and controversial British writers of modern times. This new study examines his writing - the novels, journalism, essays and polemics - by looking at the context and development of his passionately held views, and at the genres, representations and narratives in which they found expression. Douglas Kerr gives an account of Orwell's whole writing career, from its awkward beginnings in Down and Out in Paris and London to ... Read more
A fresh account of the development and achievement of the novelist and essayist who became Britain's greatest political writer of modern times. George Orwell (1903-1950) is one of the most important, admired, and controversial British writers of modern times. This new study examines his writing - the novels, journalism, essays and polemics - by looking at the context and development of his passionately held views, and at the genres, representations and narratives in which they found expression. Douglas Kerr gives an account of Orwell's whole writing career, from its awkward beginnings in Down and Out in Paris and London to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780746309728
SKU
V9780746309728
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Ref
99-50
About Douglas Kerr
Douglas Kerr is Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Hong Kong.
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