Orwell's Victory by Christopher Hitchens

Orwell's Victory by Christopher Hitchens

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Summary

In the contemporary reapprasial of the 20th century's written legacy, which writers stagger on, which implode, which thrive? Christopher Hitchen's contention in this work is that above all it is Orwell among British writers who remains impressive, uncompromised and right.

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Orwell's Victory by Christopher Hitchens

'Thomas Carlyle wrote of his CROMWELL that 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. WHY ORWELL MATTERS is 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.
Christopher Hitchens lives in Washington, DC. His most recent books are THE MISSIONARY POSITION: Mother Theresa in Theory and Practice; his attack on the Clintons NO ONE LEFT TO LIE TO: The Values of America's Worst Family and THE TRIAL OF HENRY KISSINGER.
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ISBN 13 9780713995848
ISBN 10 071399584X
Title Orwell's Victory
Author Christopher Hitchens
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 2002-06-06
Number of pages 160
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.