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Through His Unforgettable Prose, Orwell's Honesty Shines |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Arnold Beichman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2005 |
| Size: 866 Words, 5,407 Characters |
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GEORGE ORWELL: INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Edited by Thomas Cushman and John Rodden
Paradigm Publishers, $55 cloth/$26.95 paper, 288 pages
Here it is, five years into the twenty-first century, and George Orwell is still a subject of intellectual debate, sometimes heated, sometimes worshipful. He himself is always a rewarding read. Millions of people must agree: Orwell is said to have sold more books than any other serious writer of the twentieth century. Animal Farm and 1984 have been together translated into more than sixty languages.
The debates about Orwell are endlessly fascinating, as shown by this collection of twenty-one essays and speec...
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...ordinary literary gift and a genius of imagination. Who can forget O'Brien in 1984, and the pitiable Winston Smith? And the corrupted pig, Napoleon, in Animal Farm? As Peter Stansky, one of the essayists represented here, puts it: "The main reason for studying the work of a writer is to illuminate the work." And illuminate these essays do.
© 2004 News World Communications Inc.
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