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Great Courses (2020), 198 page booklet, 24 lectures, 30 minutes each, 198 pages
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Explore the life, works, and legacy of George Orwell with his official biographer as your guide. -- container.
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LibraryThing member A.Godhelm
Another great biography by Shelden who manages to balance delivering the basic facts, exploring controversies of note and doing it while delivering the material in an engaging way.
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[01] The Real George Orwell [02] George Orwell, Child of the British Empire [03] Orwell’s Edwardian Idyll [04] Orwell’s Unsentimental Education [05] Orwell, Eton, and Privilege [06] Orwell the Policeman [07] Orwell and the Imperial Burden [08] Orwell’s Lost Generation [09] Orwell, Poet of Poverty [10] Orwell and the Battle of Fact and Fiction [11] Orwell and England in the 1930s [12] Orwell and the Left [13] Orwell and the Spanish Crucible [14] Totalitarianism and Lessons of Barcelona [15] Orwell and the Last Days of Peace [16] Orwell at the Outbreak of World War [17] Orwell and the Art of Propaganda [18] Orwell and the Cultural Underground [19] Orwell and the Fight for Animal Farm [20] Orwell’s Wife and the Life of Writing [21] Politics and the English Language [22] Orwell’s Island Escape [23] 1984: Big Brother and the Thought Police [24]: Orwell’s Long Farewell