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Author Rodden, John, author.
Title Becoming George Orwell : life and letters, legend and legacy / John Rodden.
Publisher Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]



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Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; PROLOGUE Donald and Winston at the Ministry of Alternative Facts; INTRODUCTION Orwell, My "Orwell"; Part 1 Life and Letters; CHAPTER 1 The Quixotic, Adamantly Unsainted Life He Lived; CHAPTER 2 Frenemies at Fisticuffs? The Debate Rounds of Two Cordially Contentious Old Etonians; CHAPTER 3 The Literary Breakthrough, or When Blair Became Orwell; CHAPTER 4 Orwell's Twin Masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four; CHAPTER 5 A "Utopian" Edition of a Dystopian Classic; CHAPTER 6 England's Prose Laureate; Part 2 Legend and Legacy
CHAPTER 7 French Connection, Part 1: Jean Malaquais, a "French Orwell"?CHAPTER 8 French Connection, Part 2: Camus and Orwell, Rebelles avec une cause; CHAPTER 9 How and Why Orwell Became "A FAMOUS AUTHOR": Surfing the Tides of Time; CHAPTER 10 "Catholic Exceptionalism": Why Catholic America Canonized "St. George"; CHAPTER 11 "Orwellian" Warfare: From Cold to Cyber; CHAPTER 12 Why I Am Not a Socialist; CONCLUSION Whither Orwell-and "Orwell"?; Notes; Illustration Credits; Index
ISBN 9780691190129 (electronic bk.)
0691190127 (electronic bk.)
9780691182742
0691182744
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Author Rodden, John, author.
Subject Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; PROLOGUE Donald and Winston at the Ministry of Alternative Facts; INTRODUCTION Orwell, My "Orwell"; Part 1 Life and Letters; CHAPTER 1 The Quixotic, Adamantly Unsainted Life He Lived; CHAPTER 2 Frenemies at Fisticuffs? The Debate Rounds of Two Cordially Contentious Old Etonians; CHAPTER 3 The Literary Breakthrough, or When Blair Became Orwell; CHAPTER 4 Orwell's Twin Masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four; CHAPTER 5 A "Utopian" Edition of a Dystopian Classic; CHAPTER 6 England's Prose Laureate; Part 2 Legend and Legacy
CHAPTER 7 French Connection, Part 1: Jean Malaquais, a "French Orwell"?CHAPTER 8 French Connection, Part 2: Camus and Orwell, Rebelles avec une cause; CHAPTER 9 How and Why Orwell Became "A FAMOUS AUTHOR": Surfing the Tides of Time; CHAPTER 10 "Catholic Exceptionalism": Why Catholic America Canonized "St. George"; CHAPTER 11 "Orwellian" Warfare: From Cold to Cyber; CHAPTER 12 Why I Am Not a Socialist; CONCLUSION Whither Orwell-and "Orwell"?; Notes; Illustration Credits; Index
ISBN 9780691190129 (electronic bk.)
0691190127 (electronic bk.)
9780691182742
0691182744
Author Rodden, John, author.
Subject Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Subject Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Descript 1 online resource
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Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; PROLOGUE Donald and Winston at the Ministry of Alternative Facts; INTRODUCTION Orwell, My "Orwell"; Part 1 Life and Letters; CHAPTER 1 The Quixotic, Adamantly Unsainted Life He Lived; CHAPTER 2 Frenemies at Fisticuffs? The Debate Rounds of Two Cordially Contentious Old Etonians; CHAPTER 3 The Literary Breakthrough, or When Blair Became Orwell; CHAPTER 4 Orwell's Twin Masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four; CHAPTER 5 A "Utopian" Edition of a Dystopian Classic; CHAPTER 6 England's Prose Laureate; Part 2 Legend and Legacy
CHAPTER 7 French Connection, Part 1: Jean Malaquais, a "French Orwell"?CHAPTER 8 French Connection, Part 2: Camus and Orwell, Rebelles avec une cause; CHAPTER 9 How and Why Orwell Became "A FAMOUS AUTHOR": Surfing the Tides of Time; CHAPTER 10 "Catholic Exceptionalism": Why Catholic America Canonized "St. George"; CHAPTER 11 "Orwellian" Warfare: From Cold to Cyber; CHAPTER 12 Why I Am Not a Socialist; CONCLUSION Whither Orwell-and "Orwell"?; Notes; Illustration Credits; Index
ISBN 9780691190129 (electronic bk.)
0691190127 (electronic bk.)
9780691182742
0691182744

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