George Packer
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 308 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Essays by the author of 1984. George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected-and illuminated-the fraught times in which he lived. Facing Unpleasant Facts charts Orwell's development as a master of the narrative-essay form and unites such classics as "Shooting an Elephant" with lesser-known journalism and passages from his wartime diary. Whether detailing the...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 374 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The essential collection of critical essays from a twentieth-century master and author of 1984.
As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low.
A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned increasingly to the critical essay in the 1940s,...
