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The Orwell reader; fiction, essays, and reportage. / With an introd. by Richard H. Rovere.
LIBRA PR6029.R8 O7 1956
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
- Series:
- Harvest/HBJ book
- A Harvest/HBJ Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--20th century.
- English literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Fauset, Arthur Huff (autograph)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Read, Allen Walker (autograph) (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 456 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harcourt, Brace, [1956]
- Summary:
- Here is Orwell' s work in all its remarkable range and variety. The selections in this anthology show how Orwell developed as writer and as thinker; inevitably, too, they reflect and illuminate the history of the time of troubles in which he lived and worked. " A magnificent tribute to the probity, consistency and insight of Orwell' s topical writings" (Alfred Kazin). Introduction by Richard H. Rovere.
- Contents:
- [1.] Prologue in Burma: Shooting an elephant
- A hanging
- From Burmese days
- [2.] The thirties: From Down and out in Paris and London
- How the poor die
- From A clergyman's daughter
- From Keep the aspidistra flying
- From The road to Wigan Pier
- From Homage to Catalonia
- From Coming up for air
- [3.] World War II and after: From The lion and the unicorn: socialism and the English genius -England your England
- Rudyard Kipling
- Politics vs. literature: an examination of "Gulliver's travels"
- Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
- In defense of P.G. Wodehouse
- Reflections on Gandhi
- Second thoughts on James Burnham
- Politics and the English language
- The prevention of literature
- "I write as I please": Decline of the English murder ; Some thoughts on the common toad ; A good word for the vicar of Bray
- Why I write
- From Nineteen eighty-four
- "Such, such were the joys ..."
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. note "Allen Walker Read Eng Prof [C]olumbia" on half-title.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. notes on half-title.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Orwell reader.
- ISBN:
- 0156701766
- 9780156701761
- 0156704501
- 9780156704502
- OCLC:
- 366601
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