Between the bullet and the lie
Subtitle: essays on Orwell
By: Kristian Williams ; foreword by David Goodway
Contributors: Goodway, David, 1942- writer of foreword
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781849352901
Subjects: English Political fiction; History; Politics and literature; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Political and social views
Other titles: Essays on Orwell
Work titles: Essays
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: An age like this : Orwell in his time and ours --; title: Imperfect creatures : letters and diaries --; title: Not too good : Orwell, Wilde, and the saints --; title: On common decency --; title: Between the bullet and the lie : ethics in warfare --; title: A place worth living in : notes on patriotism and nationalism --; title: Strict discipline combined with social equality : the question of revolutionary leadership --; title: Meanwhile, what about socialism? : why the Left fails --; title: Political writing is bad writing : anarchism and the English language --; title: The Tower of Babel and other confusions : a reply to CrimethInc --; title: All but hopeless : pessimism in politics --; title: The struggle would continue, the idea would survive : the Spanish Civil War and the cultural imagination --; title: Appendix.; title: Reading Orwell : a study plan.