All art is propaganda : critical essays /
George Orwell ; compiled by George Packer ; with an introduction by Keith Gessen.
- 1st ed.
- Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2008.
- xxxii, 374 p ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-374).
Charles Dickens -- Boys' weeklies -- Inside the whale -- Drama reviews: The tempest, The peaceful inn -- Film review: The great dictator -- Wells, Hitler and the world state -- The art of Donald McGill -- No, not one -- Rudyard Kipling -- T.S. Eliot -- Can socialists be happy? -- Benefit of clergy: some notes on Salvador Dali -- Propaganda and demotic speech -- Raffles and Miss Blandish -- Good bad books -- The prevention of literature -- Politics and the English language -- Confessions of a book reviewer -- Politics vs. literature: an examination of Gulliver's travels -- Lear, Tolstoy and the fool -- Writers and Leviathan -- Review of The heart of the matter by Graham Greene -- Reflections on Gandhi.
Kirkus Review. Library Journal. Pub Weekly.
Collects critical essays written by George Orwell in the 1940s, in which he discusses the work of Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, T. S. Eliot, Salvador Dali, and others; and also covers propaganda, politics, and more.