Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy Rodden John
Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy Rodden John The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who…
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Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy Rodden John
The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Rodden does not argue that Orwell was the most distinguished man of letters of the last century, nor even the leading novelist of his generation, let alone the greatest imaginative writer of English prose fiction. Yes, according to John Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth.
No other writer has aroused so much controversy or contributed so many incessantly quoted words and phrases to our cultural lexicon, from "Big Brother" and "doublethink" to "thoughtcrime" and "Newspeak." Becoming George Orwell is a pathbreaking tour de force that charts the astonishing passage of a litterateur into a legend.Rodden presents the author of Yet his influence since his death at midcentury is incomparable.
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