{"product_id":"orwells-moustache-addressing-more-orwellian-matters-paperback","title":"Orwell's Moustache: Addressing More Orwellian Matters - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Lance Keeble\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver 70 years since his death, George Orwell - author of\u003cem\u003e Animal Farm \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Nineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/em\u003e, essayist and activist journalist of the left - remains one of the most significant and popular writers of the last century. Here, in a collection of recent original, entertaining and often controversial essays, Richard Lance Keeble throws new insights on Orwell - the man, his writings, his life and his first wife, Eileen O'Shaughnessy. Topics include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe politics of dress and undress, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003erepresentations of fatherhood, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eadvertisements and the political economy of the media, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOrwell and Evelyn Waugh, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehis surprising, life-long love of D. H. Lawrence's writings, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe importance and delight of the domestic diaries, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOrwell and the theatre, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehow Eileen saved his life during 1938 flu epidemic, \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEton and the 'invisible masonic network of support'.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Lance Keeble is one of our leading authorities on George Orwell. Everything he writes is essential reading for anyone interested in the man, his writings and his times. The essays collected in this volume are insightful, informative and often entertaining as well, a rare combination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Newsinger, author of\u003cem\u003e Hope Lies in the Proles\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce again Prof. Keeble has come up with some fascinating insights\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einto the world of George Orwell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Blair, Patron of The Orwell Society\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeeble has skilfully broadened our appreciation of Orwell's wide-ranging interests, along with delightful eccentricities, that other scholars have traditionally glossed over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Topp, author of \u003cem\u003eEileen: The Making of George Orwell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrwell's Moustache\u003c\/em\u003e confirms Richard Keeble's reputation as one of Orwell's most acute and knowledgeable readers, reinventing for the twenty-first century a man we think we know: the always compelling, always contradictory figure of George Orwell whose passions, obsessions, strengths and secrets here assume new meanings through analysis of everything from Orwell's dress to his father, his wife, his jokes, his diet, his fishing, and of course, his writing and politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKristin Bluemel, Monmouth University, NJ\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brilliant and consistently original assortment of responses to the always surprising complexity of Orwell's obsessions, familiar and unfamiliar - from his love of fishing, to his enduring concern with the politics of food, to the delights of recording small things in small ways in small diary entries, and much more besides. This is imaginative and in the best sense sympathetic criticism written by one of today's leading Orwell scholars\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNathan Waddell, University of Birmingham\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 22, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42744271863871,"sku":"9781845497866","price":49.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/f1211c689fd50fc84f12b5d562f0869b.webp?v=1765167627","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/orwells-moustache-addressing-more-orwellian-matters-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}