Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0820433306
ISBN-13
9780820433301
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 1st, 1997
Print length
126 Pages
Weight
350 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.70 x 1.30 cms
Ksh 6,400.00
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Three generations of critics have commented on the parallels between George Orwell and his favorite novelist, George Gissing. «I am a great fan of his,» Orwell wrote in 1948, proclaiming «that England has produced very few better novelists.» This in-depth study reveals that Orwell drew heavily on the Gissing novels he admired in shaping his own. Gissing''s New Grub Street and The Odd Women directly influenced Orwell''s Depression-era novels Keep the Aspidstra Flying and A Clergyman''s Daughter. Even Orwell''s most imaginative work, Animal Farm, mirrors Gissing''s own novel of a failed Socialist Utopia, Demos. Gissing was Orwell''s role model and alter ego. Gissing provided him with a touchstone to his beliefs, his pessimism, his love of Dickens and cozy corners, his suspicion of «progress,» his restless sexuality. To understand Orwell fully, one must first read Gissing.
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