All art is propaganda : critical essays

Orwell, George, 1903-1950, author.

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Offering commentary on the worlds of film, drama, literature, and language, a collection of criticism and essays by the author of "1984" includes such pieces as "Politics and the English Language," "Rudyard Kipling," and "Good Bad Books."

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ISBN:

9780156033077
9780151013555

Edition:

First Mariner Books edition

Description:

xxxii, 374 pages ; 21 cm

Target Audience Note:

1300 Lexile

Other Title:

Essays. Selections

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-374)

Contents:

Charles Dickens
Boys' weeklies
Inside the whale
Drama reviews: The tempest, The peaceful inn
Film review: The great dictator
Wells, Hitler and the world state
Art of Donald McGill
No, not one
Rudyard Kipling
T.S. Eliot
Can socialists be happy?
Benefit of clergy: some notes on Salvador Dali
Propaganda and demotic speech
Raffles and Miss Blandish
Good bad books
Prevention of literature
Politics and the English language
Confessions of a book reviewer
Politics vs. literature: an examination of Gulliver's travels
Lear, Tolstoy and the fool
Writers and Leviathan
Review of The heart of the matter by Graham Greene
Reflections on Gandhi

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2008012356

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3220559

Other Authors:

Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Art of Donald McGill
Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Boys' weeklies
Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Charles Dickens
Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Drama reviews
Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Film review
Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Inside the whale
Orwell, George, 1903-1950. No, not one
Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Rudyard Kipling
Orwell, George, 1903-1950. T.S. Eliot
Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Wells, Hitler, and the world state
Packer, George, 1960- compiler

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