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George Orwell

  • Textbook
  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Valerie Meyers
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Part of the book series: Palgrave Modern Novelists Series (PMN)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Orwell’s Life and Work: The Political Context

    • Valerie Meyers
    Pages 1-21

  3. Orwell the Novelist

    • Valerie Meyers
    Pages 22-42

  4. Burmese Days: Orwell’s Colonial Novel

    • Valerie Meyers
    Pages 43-59

  5. A Clergyman’s Daughter: Orwell’s Experimental Novel

    • Valerie Meyers
    Pages 60-73

  6. Keep the Aspidistra Flying: Orwell’s Portrait of the Artist

    • Valerie Meyers
    Pages 74-86

  7. Coming Up for Air: Documentary into Novel

    • Valerie Meyers
    Pages 87-100

  8. Animal Farm: An Allegory of Revolution

    • Valerie Meyers
    Pages 101-113

  9. Nineteen Eighty-Four: An Anti-Utopia

    • Valerie Meyers
    Pages 114-139

  10. Conclusion

    • Valerie Meyers
    Pages 140-146

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 147-158
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This book examines Orwell's six novels in detail and identifies Orwell's contribution to the form and technique of the novel. Orwell got started as a novelist by imitating literary models, especially Dickens, Kipling, Wells and D.H.Lawrence. Later he adapted the voice, style and subject-matter of his essays and political journalism to the novel. This book not only places Orwell's attempts to incorporate politics into fiction in the context of the literature of the 1930s and 1940s, but also shows how his novels have influenced writers up to the present.

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