George Orwell: English Rebel

by Robert Colls

Book Overview

An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in God, a fierce opponent of nationalism who defined Englishness for a generation.

Aside from being one of the greatest political essayists in the English language and author of two of the most famous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199680809
• ISBN13: 9780199680801
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"