All Art Is Propaganda: Critical EssaysThe 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, when his most important experiences were behind him and some of his most incisive writing lay ahead. All Art Is Propaganda follows Orwell as he demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary. With masterpieces such as "Politics and the English Language" and "Rudyard Kipling" and gems such as "Good Bad Books," here is an unrivaled education in, as George Packer puts it, "how to be interesting, line after line." With an Introduction from Keith Gessen. |
Contents
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Boys Weeklies | 63 |
Inside the Whale | 95 |
The Tempest The Peaceful Inn | 141 |
The Great Dictator | 144 |
Wells Hitler and the World State | 148 |
The Art of Donald McGill | 156 |
No Not One | 169 |
Raffles and Miss Blandish | 232 |
Good Bad Books | 248 |
The Prevention of Literature | 253 |
Politics and the English Language | 270 |
Confessions of a Book Reviewer | 287 |
An Examination of Gullivers Travels | 292 |
Lear Tolstoy and the Fool | 316 |
Writers and Leviathan | 337 |
Rudyard Kipling | 177 |
T S Eliot | 194 |
Can Socialists Be Happy? | 202 |
Some Notes on Salvador Dali | 210 |
Propaganda and Demotic Speech | 223 |
Review of The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene | 346 |
Reflections on Gandhi | 352 |
Notes | 363 |
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