Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

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Verso, 2002 - History - 430 pages
Hitchens provides rich evidence that his own sallies as a political journalist are nourished by a close engagement with a broad sweep of novelists.

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Contents

The Wilde Side
3
Oscar Wildes Socialism
10
Lord Trouble
20
George Orwell and Raymond Williams
30
Oh Lionel
51
Age of Ideology
57
The Real Thing
61
The Cosmopolitan Man
68
Powells Way
224
Something About the Poems
244
The EggHeads EggerOn
259
Blooms Way
269
Lightness at Midnight
272
Hooked on Ebonics
289
In Defence of Plagiarism
295
Ode to the West Wing
303

AfterTime
83
Ireland
93
Stuck in Neutral
108
A Regular Bull
116
Not Dead Yet
125
Against Sinister Perfectionism
136
Mid Off Not Right On
142
Old Man Kipling
149
Critic of the Booboisie
160
Goodbye to Berlin
169
The Grimmest Tales
201
The Importance of Being Andy
207
How Unpleasant to Meet Mr Eliot
221
OBrians Great Voyage
317
The Case of Arthur Conan Doyle
333
The Road to West Egg
345
Rebel in Evening Clothes
353
The Long Littleness of Life
361
Running on Empty
379
Unmaking Friends
389
Something for the Boys
397
The Cruiser
407
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
419
INDEX
421
Copyright

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About the author (2002)

Christopher Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, England on April 13, 1949. He was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and wrote for numerous other publications throughout his lifetime. He was the author of numerous books including No One Left to Lie To, For the Sake of Argument, Prepared for the Worst, God Is Not Great, Hitch-22: A Memoir, and Arguably. He died due to complication from esophageal cancer on December 15, 2011 at the age of 62.

Bibliographic information

TitleUnacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
AuthorChristopher Hitchens
Editionreprint, revised
PublisherVerso, 2002
ISBN1859843832, 9781859843833
Length430 pages
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History / Europe / Great Britain / General
Literary Collections / Essays
Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Politics
Political Science / History & Theory
  
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