Bibliograph

All art is propaganda, critical essays, George Orwell ; compiled by George Packer ; with an introduction by Keith Gessen

Type

Label

All art is propaganda, critical essays, George Orwell ; compiled by George Packer ; with an introduction by Keith Gessen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-374)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

All art is propaganda

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

214322739

Responsibility statement

George Orwell ; compiled by George Packer ; with an introduction by Keith Gessen

Sub title

critical essays

Summary

Offering commentary on the worlds of film, drama, literature, and language, a collection of criticism and essays by the author of "1984" includes such pieces as "Politics and the English Language," "Rudyard Kipling," and "Good Bad Books."

Table Of Contents

Charles Dickens -- Boys' weeklies -- Inside the whale -- Drama reviews: The tempest, The peaceful inn -- Film review: The great dictator -- Wells, Hitler and the world state -- The art of Donald McGill -- No, not one -- Rudyard Kipling -- T.S. Eliot -- Can socialists be happy? -- Benefit of clergy: some notes on Salvador Dali -- Propaganda and demotic speech -- Raffles and Miss Blandish -- Good bad books -- The prevention of literature -- Politics and the English language -- Confessions of a book reviewer -- Politics vs. literature: an examination of Gulliver's travels -- Lear, Tolstoy and the fool -- Writers and Leviathan -- Review of The heart of the matter by Graham Greene -- Reflections on Gandhi

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