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Also by George Orwell:

1984, January 2009
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
All Art Is Propaganda, October 2008
Hardcover
Why I Write, September 2005
Paperback (reprint)
Essays, October 2002
Hardcover
Animal Farm, April 1996
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)

Also by Keith Gessen:

Raising Raffi, June 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
All Art Is Propaganda, October 2008
Hardcover

ALL ART IS PROPAGANDA
By: George Orwell, Keith Gessen

Critical Essays

Adult
October 2008
On Sale: October 13, 2008
416 pages
ISBN: 0151013551
EAN: 9780151013555
Hardcover
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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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