Author:George Orwell
Volume 12 of The Complete Works of George Orwell
For the twenty-month period of this volume, there are reproduced 123 book, 38 theatre, and 43 film reviews. Inside the Whale, Orwell's first collection of essays, and The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius are reprinted here.
Later in that year he gave a series of broadcasts on literary criticism, the texts of which are reproduced. Throughout this period Orwell kept a wartime diary; its entries are here printed chronologically with his reviews, essays, and letters and it is here that Orwell makes the first reference to his wish to live on a Hebridean island. It was in 1941 that Orwell began his series of 'London Letters' for Partisan Review. The volume also includes Orwell's lecture notes for instructing members of his Home Guard platoon.
An epoch-making edition...few books published this year will be as worth reading as any one of them
—— Peter Carey , Sunday TimesThis edition is a wonder
—— Bevis Hillier , SpectatorThe work of a dazzling imagination
—— Kate Saunders , IndependentSurvivor comes bowling forth out of the same dark corner of the mind as Fight Club... Like its predecessor, it is a terminal novel, a novel that applies the firing-squad principle to extort tortured eloquence from its doomed narrator
—— EsquireBrilliant satire and savagely funny, Survivor offers much to admire. Palahniuk displays a swiftian gift for satire, as well as a knack for crafting mesmerizing sentences that loom with stark, prickly prose and repetitive rhythms
—— San Francisco ChronicleOne of the most gripping and touching stories I have ever read
—— Peter Snow , WeekThis is a gem
—— MirrorStands out from the mass of chick-fic like a poppy in a cornfield . . . Glitters with insight
—— NovaPraise for Lisa Jewell
—— -Addictively readable
—— The TimesTerrific
—— Sunday TimesA joy . . . a fun summer read
—— GuardianTackles serious issues with humour - proving that chick-lit can be intelligent, interesting and huge fun
—— Sunday ExpressA triumph
—— HelloTop marks. Fantastic
—— HeatMoving and intelligent
—— IndependentMagnetic, unpretentious and bursting with one-liners
—— CosmopolitanJewell's readability and emotional intelligence make her the cream of pop fiction
—— GlamourFans of chick-lit will understand when I say that this is a book you simply disappear into
—— Sunday Telegraph
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