Research Guides: ENG 2100T: Language Use and Abuse in Orwell’s 1984: Advertising & Propaganda: George Orwell and 1984

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Orwell: life and art by Jeffrey Meyers. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2010. This remarkable volume collects, for the first time, essays representing more than four decades of scholarship by one of the world's leading authorities on George Orwell. In clear, energetic prose that exemplifies his indefatigable attention to Orwell's life work, Jeffrey Meyers analyzes the works and reception of one of the most widely read and admired twentieth-century authors.
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Student Companion to George Orwell by Mitzi M. Brunsdale. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000 Written with students and general readers in mind, this volume examines George Orwell's powerful fictional writing, as well as his provocative documentaries and essays.
Call Number: 5th floor, PR6029 .R8 Z5895 2000
Diaries by George Orwell; Peter Davison. Publisher New York : Liveright Pub. Corp., 2012 Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. The diaries collected here record Orwell's youthful travels among miners and itinerant laborers, the fearsome rise of totalitarianism, the horrific drama of World War II, and the feverish composition of his great masterpieces Animal Farm and 1984.
Call Number: 5th floor, PR6029 .R8 Z46 2012

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