| Title : | The Crystal Spirit : a study of George Orwell |
| Material Type: | printed text |
| Authors: | George Woodcock, Author |
| Publisher: | England : Penguin Books |
| Publication Date: | 1966 |
| Pagination: | 286 p. |
| General note: | Includes bibliographical index (p. 281-286) |
| Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) |
| Descriptors: | History and criticism
Orwell, George (1903-1950)
Satire, English - History and criticism
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| Class number: | 828.912 |
| Abstract: | Many people have argued that the man they knew as George Orwell was more important as a personality than as a writer, for what he was than for what he said. I suspect that time will reveal this opinion to be a fallacy. Even in his least perfect writings Orwell still stands out as different from his contemporaries, yet no one reflects more clearly or more poignantly the peculiar anxieties of the age in which he lived. To speak for a generation without being typical of it is one of the marks by which we can tell the exceptional writers of any time-the writers who survive in the affections and memories of readers; if that is not enough, Orwell shows also that peculiar concern with the purity and intelligibility of the written language which in England has been the mark of the great literary reformer from John Dryden down to the present.
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| Contents note: | The Man Remembered; Life Against Odds : The Themes of Orwell's Fiction; The Revolutionary Patriot : Conservatism and Rebellion in Orwell's World - View; Prose Like a Window - pane : Orwell as Critic and Stylist; A selective Bibliography; |
| Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=18460 |
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