Overview
George Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between the interwar era and our ownārising inequality, censorship, and challenges to traditional social hierarchiesāmake his writing even more of the moment. Invocations of Orwell and his classic dystopian novel 1984 have reached new heights, with both sides of the political spectrum embracing the rhetoric of Orwellianism.
In Orwellās Ghosts, historian Laura Beers considers Orwellās full body of workāhis six novels, three nonfiction works, and brilliant essays on politics, language, and the class systemāto examine what āOrwellianā truly means and reveal the misconstrued thinker in all his complexity. She explores how Orwellās writing on free speech addresses the proliferation of āfake newsā and the emergence of cancel culture, highlights his vivid critiques of capitalism and the oppressive nature of the British Empire, and, in contrast, analyzes his failure to understand feminism.
Timely, wide-ranging, and thought-provoking, Orwellās Ghosts investigates how the writings of a lionized champion of truth and freedom can help us face the crises of modernity.
This book title, Orwell's Ghosts (Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century), ISBN: 9781324075080, by Laura Beers, published by W. W. Norton & Company (June 11, 2024) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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