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Pushkin Collection

Inside the Whale

On Writers and Writing

Orwell, George

Inside the Whale

Pushkin Collection

Inside the Whale

On Writers and Writing

Pushkin Collection: Inside the Whale

 

Unfailingly elegant and endlessly relevant, the four essays in this collection treat literature as a vital record of our political hypocrisies, our social failings, and the ennobling limits of our ideological aspirations.


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Beschrijving Pushkin Collection: Inside the Whale

Unfailingly elegant and endlessly relevant, the four essays in this collection treat literature as a vital record of our political hypocrisies, our social failings, and the ennobling limits of our ideological aspirations. Delving into the literary canon, George Orwell encounters dusty classics and lesser-known works of literature on his own exhilarating terms. The novels of Henry Miller lead him inside the belly of Jonah’s whale, an imagined refuge in a time of total war. A trenchant investigation of Charles Dickens unfolds into a poignant portrait of nineteenth-century liberalism. A minor pamphlet on Shakespeare by Tolstoy provokes a stirring evocation of humanism and the excessive vitality of life. A series of singularly thrilling reading experiences, they celebrate Orwell’s engagement with the world of writers and literature.


ISBN
9781782276753
Pagina's
208
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Serie
Pushkin Collection
NUR
309
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Paperback / softback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Pushkin Press

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