The Unknown Orwell: Orwell, the TransformationFor the first time, these two essential books on George Orwell have been brought together under one cover. The Unknown Orwell describes the first thirty years of Orwell's life his childhood, the years at Eton and in Burma, and the struggles to become a writer. Orwell: The Transformation carries us forward into the crucial years 1933 to 1937 in which Eric Blair, minor novelist, became George Orwell, a powerful writer with a view, a mission, and a message. |
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Seite 169 - ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS...
Seite 209 - I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Seite 121 - Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain: The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.
Seite 136 - In the millionaire Undershaft I have represented a man who has become intellectually and spiritually as well as practically conscious of the irresistible natural truth which we all abhor and repudiate: to wit, that the greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty, and that our first duty— a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed— is not to be poor. "Poor but honest,
Seite 36 - Green.' Till the little ones, weary, No more can be merry; The sun does descend, And our sports have an end. Round the laps of their mothers Many sisters and brothers, Like birds in their nest, Are ready for rest, And sport no more seen On the darkening Green.
Seite 63 - Tim ? Don't you want to do me credit — don't you want to have character — or do you simply not care what I think of you as long as you can get a few cheap laughs from your friends and shirk all responsibility ? " On all the boys who went through this Elizabeth and Essex relationship she had a remarkable effect, hotting them up like little Alfa-Romeos for the Brooklands of life.
Seite xv - ... out of pure sentiment because in truth, he had henchmen to spare. Good henchmen who were merciless, amoral and sometimes even brave: Ventura, Carratala, Martin Perez and Jose Salas Canizares, the spitting image of his late brother. And let's not forget Rolando Masferrer, another townsman of mine, who fought on the side of the Republic in the Spanish Civil War but later turned gangster in the Forties.
Seite 61 - Awake! oh you young men of England, For if, when your Country's in need, You do not enlist by the thousand, You truly are cowards indeed.
Seite 209 - Men like Newman and RL Stevenson seem to have taken pains to acquire what they called a style as a preliminary measure - as something that they had to form before their writings could be of any value. I should like to put it on record that I never took the smallest pains with my style, have never thought about it, and do not know or want to know whether it is a style or whether it is not, as I believe and hope, just common simple straightforwardness. I cannot conceive how any man can take thought...
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Unknown Orwell: Orwell, the Transformation |
| Autoren | Peter Stansky, William Miller Abrahams |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage |
| Verlag | Stanford University Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0804723427, 9780804723428 |
| Länge | 631 Seiten |
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