George Orwell, Doubleness, and the Value of Decency

by Anthony Stewart

Book Overview

In its analysis of Animal Farm, Burmese Days, Keep the Aspidistra Flying and Nineteen Eighty-Four, this book argues that George Orwell's fiction and non-fiction weigh the benefits and costs of adopting a doubled perspective - in other words, seeing one's own interests in relation to those of others - and illustrate how decency follows from such a perspective. Establishing this relationship within Orwell's work, Anthony Stewart demonstrates how Orwell's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415968712
• ISBN13: 9780415968713
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"