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CONTENTS Foreword by George Packer • ix Introduction by Keith Gessen • xvii Charles Dickens • 1 Boys' Weeklies • 63 Inside the Whale • 95 Drama Reviews: The Tempest, The Peaceful Inn • 141 Film Review: The Great Dictator • 144 Wells, Hitler and the World State • 148 The Art of Donald McGill • 156 No, Not One • 169 Rudyard Kipling • 177 T. S. Eliot • 194 Can Socialists Be Happy? • 202 Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali • 210 Propaganda and Demotic Speech • 223 Raffles and Miss Blandish • 232 Good Bad Books • 248 The Prevention of Literature • 253 Politics and the English Language • 270 Confessions of a Book Reviewer • 287 Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels • 292 Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool • 316
- Page 2 and 3: All Art Is Propaganda George Orwell
- Page 6 and 7: Writers and Leviathan • 337 Revie
- Page 8 and 9: overstatement and attack; his talen
- Page 10 and 11: specialization in writing, too litt
- Page 12 and 13: He is wrong in these essays about E
- Page 14 and 15: "Writers and Leviathan." There is e
- Page 16 and 17: eady phrases, you purge your langua
- Page 18 and 19: actually makes it more difficult to
- Page 20 and 21: English public has always been a li
- Page 22 and 23: has very little direct power. Unlik
- Page 24 and 25: Dickens sees clearly enough that th
- Page 26 and 27: comparatively sanely treated, no no
- Page 28 and 29: curriculum, a little watered down.
- Page 30 and 31: puritan tradition, which is not dea
- Page 32 and 33: culture. But never anywhere does he
- Page 34 and 35: childhood ... But I held some stati
- Page 36 and 37: this red-headed animal's, remained
- Page 38 and 39: a novelist, like Dickens himself. W
- Page 40 and 41: memory; but, as usual, Dickens has
- Page 42 and 43: fond sister, the same in the love o
- Page 44 and 45: child, who wasn't hungry, was playi
- Page 46 and 47: hard to hold that young man off of
- Page 48 and 49: Tolstoy is not. Tolstoy's character
- Page 50 and 51: Dickens's photographs, though it re
- Page 52 and 53: eading one or more of them. The Gem
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