Orwell's Victory'Thomas Carlyle wrote of his Cromwellthat he had had to drag him out from under a mound of dead dogs and offal before being able to set him up as a figure worthy of biography. This is not a biography, but I sometimes feel as if George Orwell requires extricating from under a pile of saccharine tablets and moist hankies . . .' There can be few writers in the world today with a better claim to have inherited Orwell's role than Christopher Hitchens with his unique ability to spot bullshit and enrage those in power. Orwell's Victoryis a spectacularly written, aggressive, brilliant defence of one of the handful of modern writers whose view of the world has become if anything even more essential in the half century since his death. |
Contents
The Figure I | 11 |
Orwell and Empire | 15 |
Orwell and the Left | 33 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
actually Adorno American Animal Farm Aspidistra Flying Auden Barcelona Britain British broadcast Burma Burmese Days Burnham Christopher Hitchens Cold Cold War colonial Communist critics culture defended Eileen O'Shaughnessy Empire England English essay Europe exile fact fascism feel feminist fiction Flory French George Orwell Gissing Gordon Homage to Catalonia human idea imperialism Indian Inside the Whale intellectuals James Burnham Keep the Aspidistra Labour language Larkin later Left Lenin Lenin Barracks literary literature live London magazine means mind moral Moscow Nineteen Eighty-Four notice novel novelist Office Orwell never Orwell wrote Orwell's Partisan Review Party Penguin Books phrase poem Poland police political propaganda published Raymond Williams readers revolution Russian seems sense social socialist sort Soviet Spain Stalin thing thought Tory totalitarianism Trotskyist truth Ukrainian Wigan Pier Winston Smith women word write to Penguin written Zilliacus