Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century
by Laura Beers
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In Orwell's Ghosts, historian Laura Beers considers Orwell's full body of work--his six novels, three nonfiction works, and brilliant essays on politics, language, and the class system--to examine what "Orwellian" truly means and reveal the misconstrued thinker in all his complexity. She explores how Orwell's writing on free speech addresses the proliferation of "fake news" and the emergence of cancel culture, highlights his vivid critiques of capitalism and the oppressive nature of the show more British Empire, and, in contrast, analyzes his failure to understand feminism. show lessTags
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- We are living in an Orwellian moment, although not in the sense that many political and cultural commentators understand the term. In recent years, with the rise of "cancel culture," "fake news," and concerted disinformation ... (show all)campaigns, invocations of Orwell and his classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four have reached new heights. -Introduction, What's Orwellian?
Born on June 25, 1903, in Motihari, Eric Arthur Blair did not adopt the pen name George Orwell until the publication of his first published book, Down and Out in Paris and London, and never legally changed his name. -C... (show all)hapter 1, From Eric Blair to George Orwell, The Making of a Writer - Canonical DDC/MDS
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