The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage

Orwell, George

ISBN 10: 0156701766 / ISBN 13: 9780156701761

Published by Mariner Books, 1961

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication Date: 1961
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156701766
• ISBN 13: 9780156701761
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

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.