All art is propaganda : critical essays /
George Orwell ; compiled by George Packer ; with an introduction by Keith Gessen.
- Boston : Mariner Books, 2009.
- xxxii, 374 pages ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references
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.
The essential collection of critical essays from a twentieth-century master and author of 1984.As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net.