The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage

by George Orwell

Overview

Here is Orwell’s work in all its remarkable range and variety. The selections in this anthology show how Orwell developed as writer and as thinker; inevitably, too, they reflect and illuminate the history of the time of troubles in which he lived and worked. “A magnificent tribute to the probity, consistency and insight of Orwell’s topical writings” (Alfred Kazin). Introduction by Richard H. Rovere.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780156701761
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	03/08/1961
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	480
Sales rank:	499,475
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.08(d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

George Orwell (1903–1950), the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. He was born in India and educated at Eton. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living by writing. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of 1984 (1949), which brought him worldwide fame. 

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John Barkham

A feast of good reading for the thinking person.