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Rodden, John, ed.: The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell.(Book review)

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From: Perspectives on Political Science
Date: 20080101
Author:Zuckert, Michael P.

Rodden, John, ed. The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 218 pp., $80.00 cloth, $24.99 paper ISBN 978-0-521-85842-7 cloth ISBN 978-0-521-7507-9 paper Publication Date: July 2007

This slim Cambridge Companion consists of sixteen relatively brief essays on the life and writings of George Orwell. The editor is John Rodden, who has written or edited five previous books on Orwell and has an essay of the "what Orwell means to me" variety in this collection. The contributors are a somewhat varied lot: five of them are British, two Canadian, ...

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