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The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell offers a wide-ranging reconsideration of Orwell's life and work, focusing on the extensive connections between his novels, essays, diaries, columns, letters, and reviews. Accessible to general audiences and to established scholars alike, forty-eight chapters written by an international team of Orwell specialists address familiar topics--such as Orwell's journalism, broadcasting, literary criticism, and politics--as well as less well-trodden areas of his output, such as his accounts of stupidity, kindness, and justice, and his connections with contemporaries like Jack Common, Katharine Burdekin, Wyndham Lewis, and Victor Serge. Sections on Orwell's professional activities, his main literary influences, his politics, his intellectual fixations, his literary contemporaries, and his legacies structure the book, which moves thematically and topically through the full scope of his output.

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Nathan Waddell is a professor of twentieth-century literature at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Moonlighting: Beethoven and Literary Modernism, and edited Orwell's A Clergyman's Daughter for the Oxford World's Classics series in 2021, along with The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2020. Nathan Waddell is a professor of twentieth-century literature at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Moonlighting: Beethoven and Literary Modernism, and edited Orwell's A Clergyman's Daughter for the Oxford World's Classics series in 2021, along with The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2020. Steven Crossley, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, has built a career on both sides of the Atlantic as an actor and audiobook narrator, for which he has won more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and been a nominee for the prestigious Audie Award. He is a member of the internationally renowned theater company Complicite and has appeared in numerous theater, television, film, and radio dramas. Steven Crossley, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, has built a career on both sides of the Atlantic as an actor and audiobook narrator, for which he has won more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and been a nominee for the prestigious Audie Award. He is a member of the internationally renowned theater company Complicite and has appeared in numerous theater, television, film, and radio dramas.

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