Author: Lee, Robert A.:
Title: Orwell's Fiction.
Description: Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 1970 2nd printing, H/B red cloth bds, VG, minor surface wear, unclipped d/w, VG, upper bd a little bent, contents crisp and tight, neat address label on prelim. pp188. Dr Lee discusses in chronological order Orwell's six novels and his memoir of his experiences in Spain. Themes common to his entire career are traced from their beginnings in his earliest novels. Orwell's major concern, the use and misuse of language, is discussed from its earliest considerations in the first books to its final development in 1984.

Keywords: George Orwell critic novels discussion novelist language themes reading literature social and moral insights maturity