Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell
D. J. Taylor, "Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell"
English | ISBN: 0300272987 | 2024 | 224 pages | PDF | 15 MB
English | ISBN: 0300272987 | 2024 | 224 pages | PDF | 15 MB
A spirited and essential companion to Orwell and his works, covering all the novels and major essays
An intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn’t trust the state—our foremost political essayist and author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four was a man of stark, puzzling contradictions. Knowing Orwell’s life and reading Orwell’s works produces just as many questions as it answers.
Celebrated Orwell biographer D. J. Taylor guides fans and new readers alike through the many twists and turns of Orwell’s books, life and thought. As a writer he intended his works to be transparent and instantly accessible, yet they are also full of secrets and surprises, tantalising private histories, and psychological quirks. From his conflicted relationship with religion to his competing anti-imperialism and fascination with empire,
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