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| George Orwell, famous as the author of Animal
Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, was also a novelist, essayist,
literary critic and journalist of a high order. Warren Hope
traces Orwell's development as a writer by relating the work
to his life. He shows how Eric Blair, born in India, raised
to be a servant of the British Empire, an Etonian, worked to
free himself of the prejudices and superstitions imposed by
his background so that he could think for himself and write
what he thought. In this way, Hope puts Orwell's early, flawed
works of fiction in a useful context. He is also able to show
how Orwell's experiences in the Spanish Civil War represent
a turning point in his political thought and his development
as a writer, preparing the way for the magnificent late essays
and influencial anti-totalitarian fictions. |
| Warren
Hope, poet, critic and lecturer, is the editor of Norman
Cameron's Collected Poems and author of Adam's
Thoughts in Winter: A Selection of Poems 170 - 2000. He
is the author of critical studies on Shakespeare and Larkin,
and the editor of a number of literary and historical sources.
He lives in Philadelphia where he raised his family. |
| About the Student Guide Literary Series |
| The Times Educational Supplement:
"The style of [this series] has a pressure of
meaning behind it. Students should learn from that...If art
is about selection, perception and taste, then this is it." |
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