Books by John Rodden

Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. He charts the astonishing passage of a litterateur into a legend.

From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, essays, memoirs, and even a best-selling novel, The Last Puritan

The making of literary reputations is as much a reflection of a writer's surrounding culture and politics as it is of the intrinsic quality and importance of his work

From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, essays, memoirs, and even a best-selling novel, The Last Puritan

The making of literary reputations is as much a reflection of a writer's surrounding culture and politics as it is of the intrinsic quality and importance of his work

Following a literary analysis of "Animal Farm", this text then examines the historical, political and literary issues raised by the novel to basic tenets of Marxism, the Russian Revolution and Josef Stalin, and the relation of George Orwell's life to the writing of the novel.

Wide-ranging anthology of criticism devoted to the literary, cultural and political work of the writer Irving Howe.