George Orwell: A Centenary Tribute [essay]
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2003-12
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Manne, Robert
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Australian Book Review
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Abstract
Despite all the horrors of his age, there remained in Orwell, even as illness overtook him, a feeling in his limbs, an exuberance of spirit, a fascination with the details of life, a love of the world. Orwell tells us that, when he was shot through the throat in Spain and believed he was about to die, what he experienced was 'a violent resentment at having to leave this world which, when all is said and done, suits me so well'.
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Australian, Book Reviews, Publishing, Robert Manne, British Empire, Civil service, Burma, Burmese, Barcelona, Trotsky, Soviet Union, Communist Party, NKVD, Totalitarianism, Revolutionary socialist, Russian Revolution, Stalin, Hitler, Nazi Germany, Foreign policy, Nationalisation, Nationalism, English language, Arthur Koestler, Animal Farm, James Burnham, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Big Brother, telescreen, the Ministry of Truth, Hate Week, thoughtcrime, doublethink, newspeak, Atlee Labour Government, Eric Hobsbawm, Why I Write, Saddam Hussein, Iraq, Barry Hill, Tribune, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Srtre, World War II, Spanish Civil War, Revenge is Sour, Shooting an Elephant, The Road to Wigan Pier, Left book club, Victor Gollancz, Homage to Catalonia, Reflections on Gandhi, Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool, Shakespeare, 1984
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Manne, Robert 2003. George Orwell: A Centenary Tribute. 'Australian Book Review', No 257, December, 32-36.