The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell
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The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell
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The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell offers a wide-ranging reconsideration of Orwell's life and work, focusing on the extensive connections between his novels, essays, diaries, columns, letters, and reviews. Accessible to general audiences and to established scholars alike, forty-eight chapters written by an international team of Orwell specialists address familiar topics—such as Orwell's journalism, broadcasting, literary criticism, and politics—as well as less well-trodden areas of his output, such as his accounts of stupidity, kindness, and justice, and his connections with contemporaries like Jack Common, Katharine Burdekin, Wyndham Lewis, and Victor Serge. Sections on Orwell's professional activities, his main literary influences, his politics, his intellectual fixations, his literary contemporaries, and his legacies structure the book, which moves thematically and topically through the full scope of his output.
©2025 Oxford University Press (P)2025 Ascent AudioThere’s also a few times when Orwell uses the term ‘tuppence’ or ‘tuppence ha’penny’ to mean cheap. It’s written as ‘two pence half penny’ so is read ‘two pence half penny’ it would have been nice to have various readers, but maybe not practical. But a more neutral voice would have been easier. I’m sure many will be fine with it and the book is fantastic still.
Depth of understanding is fabulous
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