Becoming George Orwell : : Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy / / John Rodden.
The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden’s provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not argue that Orwell was the most distinguished man...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- PROLOGUE. Donald and Winston at the Ministry of Alternative Facts
- INTRODUCTION. Orwell, My “Orwell”
- PART 1. Life and Letters
- CHAPTER 1. The Quixotic, Adamantly Unsainted Life He Lived
- CHAPTER 2. Frenemies at Fisticuffs?
- CHAPTER 3. The Literary Breakthrough, or When Blair Became Orwell
- CHAPTER 4. Orwell’s Twin Masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Chapter 5. A “Utopian” Edition of a Dystopian Classic
- CHAPTER 6. England’s Prose Laureate
- PART 2. Legend and Legacy
- CHAPTER 7. French Connection, Part 1
- CHAPTER 8. French Connection, Part 2
- CHAPTER 9. How and Why Orwell Became “A FAMOUS AUTHOR”
- CHAPTER 10 “Catholic Exceptionalism”
- CHAPTER 11. “Orwellian” Warfare: From Cold to Cyber
- CHAPTER 12. Why I Am Not a Socialist
- CONCLUSION. Whither Orwell–and “Orwell”?
- Notes
- Illustration Credits
- Index