- Why Orwell Matters
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Why Orwell Matters Author(s) Christopher Hitchens Country United States of America Language English Publisher Basic Books Publication date 2002 Media type Print (Paperback) Pages 211 ISBN 0-465-03050-5 OCLC Number 49922535 Why Orwell Matters, released in the UK as Orwell's Victory, is a book-length biographical essay by Christopher Hitchens. In it, the author relates George Orwell's thoughts on and actions in relation to: the British Empire; the British left; the British right; the United States; English conventions; feminism and women; and his own controversial work for the British Foreign Office. At the end of the book, Hitchens critiques Orwell's novels and legacy.
A portion of the book also appears in John Rodden's 2007 compilation Cambridge Companion to George Orwell (ISBN 987-0-521-85842-7).
External links
- Flak Magazine review of Why Orwell Matters (by Luciano D'Orazio)
- "Nineteen Years Later" - Yale Review of books, Why Orwell Matters (by Alex Lee)
Christopher Hitchens Beliefs Works authored The Missionary Position · Letters to a Young Contrarian · The Trial of Henry Kissinger · Why Orwell Matters · A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq · Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays · Thomas Jefferson: Author of America · Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man": A Biography · God Is Not Great · Hitch-22: A MemoirWorks edited Blaming the Victims (with Edward Said) · The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-BelieverWorks of George Orwell Novels Burmese Days (1934) · A Clergyman's Daughter (1935) · Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) · Coming Up for Air (1939) · Animal Farm (1945) · Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)Nonfiction Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) · The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) · Homage to Catalonia (1938)Essays "A Hanging" (1931) · "The Spike" (1931) · "Bookshop Memories" (1936) · "Shooting an Elephant" (1936) · "Spilling the Spanish Beans" (1937) · "Boys' Weeklies" (1940) · "Inside the Whale" (1940) · "My Country Right or Left" (1940) · "England Your England" (1941) · "The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius" (1941) · "The Art of Donald McGill" (1940) · "Poetry and the Microphone" (1943) · "Raffles and Miss Blandish" (1944) · "Good Bad Books" (1945) · "Notes on Nationalism" (1945) · "Books v. Cigarettes" (1946) · "Confessions of a Book Reviewer" (1946) · "Decline of the English Murder" (1946) · "A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray" (1946) · "How the Poor Die" (1946) · "The Moon Under Water" (1946) · "A Nice Cup of Tea" (1946) · "Pleasure Spots" (1946) · "Politics and the English Language" (1946) · "The Politics of Starvation" (1946) · "Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels" (1946) · "The Prevention of Literature" (1946) · "Riding Down from Bangor" (1946) · "Second Thoughts on James Burnham" (1946) · "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad" (1946) · "Why I Write" (1946) · "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool" (1947) · "The English People" (1947) · "Such, Such Were the Joys" (1952)Related articles "As I Please" · "London Letters" · Betrayal of the Left · Inside the Whale and Other Essays · Searchlight Books · Secker and Warburg · Victor Gollancz Ltd · Eileen O'Shaughnessy · Sonia Brownell · Orwell's list · Eric & Us · Why Orwell Matters · Orwell Award · Orwell Prize · OrwellianCategories:- 2002 books
- American non-fiction books
- Books by Christopher Hitchens
- Books of literary criticism
- George Orwell
- Biography book stubs
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