Chelsea House Publishers Bloom's How To Write About George Orwell

George Orwell wrote many essays and political pamphlets, yet most know him for his fable Animal Farm and his dystopian novel 1984. This essential volume offers strategies and techniques for writing effective essays not only on these canonical works but on Orwell's political views, his perspective on totalitarianism, and the forms of realism in his works as well. Coverage includes the essay "Shooting an Elephant" and book-length nonfiction Homage to Catalonia and Down and Out in Paris and London. Complete with a guide for composing good essays, Bloom's How to Write about George Orwell also features suggestions for paper topics, coverage of Orwell's major works, and an introduction by master scholar Harold Bloom.