Becoming George Orwell 9780691190129, 0691182744, 9780691182742
The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering icon Is George Orwell the most influential w
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
PROLOGUE
Donald and Winston at the Ministry of Alternative Facts 1
INTRODUCTION
Orwell, My “Orwell” 9
Part 1 Life and Letters
CHAPTER 1
The Quixotic, Adamantly Unsainted Life He Lived 27
CHAPTER 2
Frenemies at Fisticuffs? The Debate Rounds of Two Cordially Contentious Old Etonians 59
CHAPTER 3
The Literary Breakthrough, or When Blair Became Orwell 72
CHAPTER 4
Orwell’s Twin Masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four 90
CHAPTER 5
A “Utopian” Edition of a Dystopian Classic 109
CHAPTER 6
England’s Prose Laureate 124
Part 2 Legend and Legacy
CHAPTER 7
French Connection, Part 1: Jean Malaquais, a “French Orwell”? 141
CHAPTER 8
French Connection, Part 2: Camus and Orwell, Rebelles avec une cause 175
CHAPTER 9
How and Why Orwell Became “A FAMOUS AUTHOR”: Surfing the Tides of Time 194
CHAPTER 10
“Catholic Exceptionalism”: Why Catholic America Canonized “St. George” 221
CHAPTER 11
“Orwellian” Warfare: From Cold to Cyber 247
CHAPTER 12
Why I Am Not a Socialist 259
CONCLUSION
Whither Orwell—and “Orwell”? 274
Notes 301
Illustration Credits 341
Index 343
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