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Orwell: The Road to Airstrip One, Second Edition by Ian Slater (Paperback, 2003)

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In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people ... So begins one of Orwell's most famous essays. In Orwell: The Road to Airstrip One Ian Slater explains why Orwell was hated in Moulmein and takes us on a fascinating intellectual journey that traces the development of Orwell's political and social criticism. Using a uniquely thematic approach, Slater also examines Orwell's self-criticism and, finally, the hidden and corrosive dangers of state and self-imposed censorship in a security-obsessed world. Slater's tour de force, critically acclaimed by those on both the left and the right, moves from Orwell's schooldays in England and his time as a policeman in Burma, through his years as a struggling poet, dishwasher, tramp in Paris, and tutor, schoolmaster, and bookshop assistant in London, to his critical experiences during the Spanish Civil War. Slater takes us beyond the events of Orwell's life to the bitter satire of the Russian Revolution in Animal Farm and the horrifying terror of Room 101 in 1984, Orwell's final novel, and shows that 1984 is as much a warning about the state of mind we call totalitarianism as it is a prophecy of an actual political state.As the war on terrorism continues and governments demand ever-increasing power over the individual in order to combat terrorism, Orwell: The Road to Airstrip One, reissued during Orwell's centenary, warns us that he who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN-13
9780773526228
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96184096

Product Key Features

Book Title
Orwell: the Road to Airstrip One, Second Edition
Author
Ian Slater
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
312 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
380g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Ian Slater
Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada

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