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  • The Unexamined Orwell

    by John Rodden ...
    Series series Literary Modernism
    A reflection on Orwell-as-idea that "outlines some of the misconceptions and misuses of the Orwell name" ( Modern Fiction Studies).The year 1984 is just a memory, but the catchwords of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four still routinely pepper public discussions of topics ranging from government surveillance and privacy invasion to language corruption and bureaucratese. Orwell's work ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Study of George Orwell

    The Man and His Works

    by Christopher Hollis ...
    Author Christopher Hollis knew George Orwell personally during his schooldays at Eton, afterwards in Burma, and at the end of his life. His study of Orwell’s books is therefore illuminated by some anecdotes of reminiscence. However, it is important to note that this book is primarily a study rather than a biography. Hollis examines Orwell’s books in order and traces through them the development of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Becoming George Orwell

    Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy

    by John Rodden ...
    The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden’s provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. 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 ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse

    A History of Eastern German Education, 1945-1995

    by John Rodden ...
    This is the first English-language study of GDR education and the first book, in any language, to trace the history of Eastern German education from 1945 through the 1990s. Rodden fully relates the GDR's attempt to create a new Marxist nation by means of educational reform, and looks not only at the changing institution of education but at something the Germans call Bildung--the formation of ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Every Intellectual's Big Brother

    George Orwell's Literary Siblings

    by John Rodden ...
    Series series Literary Modernism
    George Orwell has been embraced, adopted, and co-opted by everyone from the far left to the neoconservatives. Each succeeding generation of Anglo-American intellectuals has felt compelled to engage the life, work, and cultural afterlife of Orwell, who is considered by many to have been the foremost political writer of the twentieth century. Every Intellectual's Big Brother explores the ways in ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Worlds of Irving Howe

    The Critical Legacy

    by John Rodden ...
    The Worlds of Irving Howe: The Critical Legacy is a wide-ranging anthology of criticism devoted to the literary, cultural, and political work of the writer Irving Howe. The book offers a broad cross-section of critical and biographical writings about Howe. Collected here are assessments of Howe's work written by some of the most prominent intellectuals of the twentieth century, among them Lionel ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • George Orwell

    The Politics of Literary Reputation

    by John Rodden ...
    The making of literary reputations is as much a reflection of a writer's surrounding culture and politics as it is of the intrinsic quality and importance of his work. The current stature of George Orwell, commonly recognized as the foremost political journalist and essayist of the century, provides a notable instance of a writer whose legacy has been claimed from a host of contending political ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • George Orwell

    Into the Twenty-first Century

    by Thomas Cushman, John Rodden ...
    The year 2003 was the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Orwell, one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century. Orwell's books are assigned today in over 60,000 classrooms annually. In this book essays by prominent writers and scholars explain why his impact continues in a world much changed from his own. The essays explore new aspects of Orwell's life and work and his ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Walls That Remain

    Eastern and Western Germans Since Reunification

    by John Rodden ...
    The Walls That Remain explores the trauma of German reunification in 1990 as it affected ordinary Eastern and Western Germans. Told mainly in their own words, this book features the voices of those Germans who have suffered as well as profited from the transformations in German society since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and Germany's reunification in October 1990. ... Read more

    $200.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell

    Edited by John Rodden ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. The massive critical literature on Orwell has not only become extremely specialized, and therefore somewhat inaccessible to the nonscholar, but it has also attributed to and even created misconceptions about the man, the writer and his literary legacy. For these reasons, an overview of Orwell's writing ... Read more

    Was $33.99 USD Now $28.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell

    by John Rodden, John Rossi ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Arguably the most influential political writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains a crucial voice for our times. Known world-wide for his two best-selling masterpieces Nineteen Eighty-Four, a gripping portrait of a dystopian future, and Animal Farm, a brilliant satire on the Russian Revolution, Orwell has been revered as an essayist, journalist and literary-political intellectual, and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    Becoming George Orwell

    Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy

    by John Rodden ...
    Narrated by Richard Poe ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 15 min

    The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering icon Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. 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 ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook