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Critical Essays
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October 2008
On Sale: October 13, 2008
416 pages
ISBN: 0151013551
EAN: 9780151013555
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Non-Fiction
As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home
discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved
back and forth across the porous borders between essay and
journalism, high art and low. A frequent commentator on
literature, language, film, and drama throughout his
career, Orwell turned increasingly to the critical essay in
the 1940s, when his most important experiences were behind
him and some of his most incisive writing lay ahead. All Art Is Propaganda follows Orwell as he demonstrates in
piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of
work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical
commentary. With masterpieces such as "Politics and the
English Language" and "Rudyard Kipling" and gems such
as "Good Bad Books," here is an unrivaled education in, as
George Packer puts it, "how to be interesting, line after
line."
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