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Why Orwell Matters (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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Why Orwell Matters (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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Loot Price R337
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"Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first
century." --Boston Globe In this widely acclaimed biographical
essay, the masterful polemicist Christopher Hitchens assesses the
life, the achievements, and the myth of the great political writer
and participant George Orwell. True to his contrarian style,
Hitchens is both admiring and aggressive, sympathetic yet critical,
taking true measure of his subject as hero and problem. Answering
both the detractors and the false claimants, Hitchens tears down
the facade of sainthood erected by the hagiographers and rebuts the
critics point by point. He examines Orwell and his perspectives on
fascism, empire, feminism, and Englishness, as well as his outlook
on America, a country and culture toward which he exhibited much
ambivalence. Whether thinking about empires or dictators, race or
class, nationalism or popular culture, Orwell's moral outlook
remains indispensable in a world that has undergone vast changes in
the seven decades since his death. Combining the best of Hitchens'
polemical punch and intellectual elegance in a tightly woven and
subtle argument, this book addresses not only why Orwell matters
today, but how he will continue to matter in a future, uncertain
world.
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