Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john rodden

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  • GEORGE ORWELL
    JOHN RODDEN
    The making of literary reputations is as much a reflection of a writer's surrounding culture and politics as it is of the intrinsic quality and importance of his work. The current stature of George Orwell, commonly recognized as the foremost political journalist and essayist of the century, provides a notable instance of a writer whose legacy has been claimed from a host of con...

    $1,360.00

  • WALLS THAT REMAIN
    JOHN RODDEN
    The Walls That Remain explores the trauma of German reunification in 1990 as it affected ordinary Eastern and Western Germans. Told mainly in their own words, this book features the voices of those Germans who have suffered as well as profited from the transformations in German society since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and Germany's reunification in October 1990. ...

    $4,000.00

  • WORLDS OF IRVING HOWE
    JOHN RODDEN
    The Worlds of Irving Howe: The Critical Legacy is a wide-ranging anthology of criticism devoted to the literary, cultural, and political work of the writer Irving Howe. The book offers a broad cross-section of critical and biographical writings about Howe. Collected here are assessments of Howe's work written by some of the most prominent intellectuals of the twentieth century,...

    $2,060.00

  • GEORGE ORWELL
    THOMAS CUSHMAN / JOHN RODDEN
    The year 2003 was the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Orwell, one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century. Orwell's books are assigned today in over 60,000 classrooms annually. In this book essays by prominent writers and scholars explain why his impact continues in a world much changed from his own. The essays explore new aspects of Orwell's life ...

    $2,040.00

  • THE UNEXAMINED ORWELL
    JOHN RODDEN
    A reflection on Orwell-as-idea that "outlines some of the misconceptions and misuses of the Orwell name" ( Modern Fiction Studies).   The year 1984 is just a memory, but the catchwords of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four still routinely pepper public discussions of topics ranging from government surveillance and privacy invasion to language corruption and bureaucrates...

    $229.00