Search result for John Rodden

Description: Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man i...

Description: The making of literary reputations is as much a reflection of a writer's surrounding culture and politics as it is of the intrinsic quality ...

Description: The Walls That Remain explores the trauma of German reunification in 1990 as it affected ordinary Eastern and Western Germans. Told mainly i...

Description: An introductory guide to the life, work and legacy of George Orwell - one of the most influential literary twentieth-century figures.

Description: George Orwell has been embraced, adopted, and co-opted by everyone from the far left to the neoconservatives. Each succeeding generation of ...

Description: This is the first English-language study of GDR education and the first book, in any language, to trace the history of Eastern German educat...

Description: This study examines how George Orwell's legacy as a writer developed, and the importance of his work both during and after his lifetime. Joh...

Description: When authors are interviewed about their books or themselves, much more is going on than a simple conversation. The interview becomes a perf...

Description: Analyzes the historical context of "Animal Farm" and examines Orwell's political allegory in relation to Marxism, the Russian Revolution, an...

Description: George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984 have sold 40 million copies in 65 languages, more than any other pair of books by a single writer in hi...