Titre : | Decline of the English Murder and other essays |
Type de document : | texte imprimé |
Auteurs : | George Orwell (1903-1950), Auteur |
Editeur : | London [United Kingdom] : Penguin |
Année de publication : | 1975 |
Importance : | 188 p |
Langues : | Anglais Langues originales : Anglais |
Résumé : | Billed as some of Orwell's "less accessible" material, Decline of the English Murder and other essays contains ten texts on a strange variety of subjects, but in which his potent insights into the flaws of man and society remain constant - as well as a biting wit. The title piece is a case in point, drawing an unflattering, and humorously cynical, comparison between the "popular" contemporary (post-World War II) crimes making the headlines and those doing so between 1850 and 1925 - what he refers to as "Our great period in murder, our Elizabethan period, so to speak". |
Note de contenu : | -Decline of the English murder
-A hanging
-Benefit of Clergy
-How the Poor Die
-Rudyard Kipling
-Raffles and Miss Blandish
-Charles Dickens
-The Art of Donald Mc Gill
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Nature du document : | Roman |
Genre : | Psychologique/Réalisme/Récit de vie |