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    Series series Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics
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    by Stephen Ingle ...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell

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    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

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