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Selected Essays: Oxford World's Classics

Autor George Orwell Editat de Stefan Collini
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 ian 2021
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.George Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and there are quite a few of his essays which are probably better known than any of his other writings apart from Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Stefan Collini presents a collection of Orwell's longer, major essays as well as a selection of shorter pieces, arranged into three categories: Personal/Descriptive, Literary, and Political.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198804178
ISBN-10: 0198804172
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 129 x 195 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford World's Classics

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Stefan Collini is Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature. After degrees at Cambridge and Yale, he taught at the University of Sussex before moving to a post in the Faculty in 1986. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a frequent contributor to The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The Nation, and other periodicals, and an occasional broadcaster.

Cuprins

  • Introduction
  • Note on the Text
  • Select Bibliography
  • A Chronology of George Orwell
  • Selected Essays
  • Shooting an elephant (1936)
  • Inside the whale (1940)
  • Charles Dickens (1940)
  • Boys' weeklies (1940)
  • The art of Donald McGill (1941)
  • Wells, Hitler and the world state (1941)
  • Rudyard Kipling (1942)
  • Raffles and Miss Blandish (1944)
  • In defence of P.G. Wodehouse (1945)
  • Notes on nationalism (1945)
  • The prevention of literature (1946)
  • Decline of the English murder (1946)
  • Politics and the English language (1946)
  • Confessions of a book reviewer (1946)
  • Why I write (1946)
  • Politics vs literature: an examination of Gulliver's Travels (1946)
  • How the poor die (1946)
  • Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool (1947)
  • Writers and Leviathan (1948)
  • Explanatory Notes