This is the biography of the English novelist and essayist George Orwell. Orwell is the author of "Down and out in Paris", "Homage to Catalonia", "The Lion and the Unicorn" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four".

George Orwell : A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Bernard Crick

Professionals & Academics

Penguin Books, Ltd.

20/20 Visions: The Futures of Christianity in Britain

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

SPCK (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge)

In Defence of Politics

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Socialism (Concepts in the social sciences)

Sociology

Open University Press

This lively collection of essays gives a non-technical, but profound analysis of the essential relationship between politics and literature. Bernard Crick shows how 'political theatre' is often both bad theatre and simplistic politics, but how good producers can bring out political messages in such seemingly 'unpolitical' dramas as Twelfth Night. The essays begin with general themes, including a vigorous critique of RSC and NT producers' views of the political, and a denial of the myth that the far left dominated 1930s writing. They then move on to an analysis of George Orwell and finally to celebrate specific occasions and events in modern British theatre.With his refreshing disrespect for over-ornate and overly scholastic Marxist and academic writers, Professor Crick's book will be of interest to all those concerned with the arts and the theatre, as well as political philosophers and English literature students.

Essays on Politics and Literature

Edinburgh University Press

Essays on Political Education

Derek Heater

Taylor&Francis

In Defence of Politics 5th/ed

CONTINUUM (EPZ)

George Orwell

Suhrkamp

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