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- Title: Two Irascible Englishmen: Mr. Waugh and Mr. Orwell (George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh)
- Author : Modern Age
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 180 KB
Description
2003 MARKED THE CENTENARY of two of the most influential English authors of the middle years of the twentieth century: Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell (1903-1950), and Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966). Although the themes and topics they treated now seem dated (the fast, but dim social set of the late 1920s and early 1930s for Waugh; the travails of the working classes during the great slump for Orwell), both authors continue to be widely read today. Orwell remains popular for Animal Farm (1945), Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), and to a lesser extent for his essays; Waugh is acclaimed for Brideshead Revisited (1945) and his World War II trilogy, Sword of Honor (1965). What made these two different individuals so influential when so many of their contemporaries have been forgotten? Who, for instance, other than academics, reads J.P. Priestley, Cyril Connolly, Stephen Spender, or C. Day Lewis today? Waugh and Orwell continue to be popular because they were brilliant imaginative writers who enriched English literature, either with unforgettable characters (Waugh) or with the most frightening dystopia in English letters (Orwell).