George Orwell
English Rebel
(Sprache: Englisch)
A journey through the life and thought of George Orwell, from public school satirist and imperial policeman to Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four.
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A journey through the life and thought of George Orwell, from public school satirist and imperial policeman to Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four.
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An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in God, a fierce opponent of nationalism who defined Englishness for a generation. Aside from being one of the greatest political essayists in the English language and author of two of the most famous books in twentieth century literature, George Orwell was a man of many fascinating contradictions, someone who liked to go against the grain because he believed that was where the truth usually lay. George Orwell. English Rebel takes us on a journey through the many twists and turns of Orwell's life and thought, from the precocious public school satirist at Eton and the imperial policeman in Burma, through his early years as a rather dour documentary writer, down and out on the streets of Paris and London and on the road to Wigan pier, o his formative experiences as a volunteer soldier in the Spanish Civil War. Above all, the book skilfully traces Orwell's gradual reconciliation with his country, a journey which began down a coal mine in 1936 to find its exhilarating peaks during the dark days of the Second World War.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „George Orwell “
Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Angry Old Etonian; 2 North Road; 3 Eye Witness in Barcelona, 1937; 4 Mr Bowling Sees it Through; 5 England the Whale; 6 Not Quite Tory; 7 Last of England; 8 Death in the Family; Life After Death: A Bibliographical Essay; Notes; Index
Autoren-Porträt von Robert Colls
Robert Colls is Professor of Cultural History at De Montfort University, Leicester. He was born in South Shields and educated at South Shields Grammar Technical School and the universities of Sussex and York. He has held fellowships at the universities of Oxford, Yale, and Dortmund, and with the Leverhulme Trust. He is author of the acclaimed Identity of England, which is also published by Oxford University Press (2002).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Robert Colls
- 2013, 352 Seiten, Masse: 16,4 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199680809
- ISBN-13: 9780199680801
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.10.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
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There have been many books written about George Orwell but this is surely among the best. Rob Colls has taken on the man's Englishness, his personality, warts and all, and the elusive notion that he was a rebel in his own land. It's full of zesty prose, fine insights and a freshness of interpretation which made it a pleasure to read. It's a major achievement and a major work on George Orwell. Melvyn Bragg Colls identifies and analyses a strand of Orwell's authorship the importance of which has been consistently underestimated: Orwell's highly problematic relations with his English inheritance By showing how this concern changed its shape over time Colls has changed our view of Orwell's life and work, and offered a fresh perspective on a pivotal period in English intellectual and political history. John Gray, author of Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals This book should interest both informed general readers and serious students of Orwell's work, for it represents a judicious and all-too-rare example of being an absorbing intellectual biography undergirded by scrupulous literary scholarship. John Rodden, editor of The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell
Pressezitat
an honest and at times brilliant essay in biography and intellectual history-writing...the book really does offer a nuanced and fresh view The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies
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