War Broadcasts - Hardcover

Orwell, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0715619160 ISBN 13: 9780715619162

Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 1988

Synopsis

This volume, with its companian "The War Commentaries", re-creates the grim purposeful mood of Britain between Dunkirk and D-Day. The book brings together all the surviving BBC talks written and presented by Orwell during 1942 and 1943. Some of the talks are political: on sabotage, on rationing. Many are literary: adaptations of plays or stories by H.G. Wells, Hans Anderson and Anatole France among others; assessments of writers who influenced Orwell, including Swift, Shaw and Oscar Wilde. A selection of the correspondence from several of the contributors to Orwell's programmes includes letters form E.M. Forster, Mulk Raj Anand, T.S. Eliot and Cyril Connolly.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0715619160
• ISBN 13: 9780715619162
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: West W.J.