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The Orwell reader

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[1.] Prologue in Burma: Shooting an elephant -- A hanging -- From Burmese days -- [2.] The thirties: From Down and out in Paris and London -- How the poor die -- From A clergyman's daughter -- From Keep the aspidistra flying -- From The road to Wigan Pier -- From Homage to Catalonia -- From Coming up for air -- [3.] World War II and after: From The lion and the unicorn : socialism and the English genius -- England your England -- Rudyard Kipling -- Politics vs. literature : an examination of "Gulliver's travels"--Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool -- In defense of P.G. Wodehouse -- Reflections on Gandhi -- Second thoughts on James Burnham -- Politics and the English language -- The prevention of literature -- "I write as I please": Decline of the English murder ; Some thoughts on the common toad ; A good word for the vicar of Bray -- Why I write -- From Nineteen eighty-four -- "Such, such were the joys ..."

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456

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The Orwell reader: fiction, essays, and reportage
1984, Harcourt Brace Javanovich
in English
Cover of: The Orwell reader
The Orwell reader: fiction, essays, and reportage
1984, Harcourt Brace & Co.
in English
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The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage
March 8, 1961, Harvest Books
in English
Cover of: The Orwell reader
Cover of: The Orwell reader
The Orwell reader: fiction, essays, and reportage.
1956, Harcourt, Brace
in English - [1st ed.]
Cover of: Orwell Reader
Orwell Reader
1956, Harcourt, Jovanovich Brace
in English
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Edition Notes

Published in
San Diego
Series
A Harvest/HBJ Book

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR5904, PR6029.R8 O7 1984

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 456 p. ;
Number of pages
456

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL18353549M
ISBN 10
0156701766
LCCN
61001439
OCLC/WorldCat
47597311
LibraryThing
46751
Goodreads
9652

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OL1168202W

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