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1 online resource |
| Summary |
'Outside the Whale', first produced in Edinburgh in 1976, is a fictional account of the writer George Orwell set in the early 1930s in which the action moves easily over a period of three years and in settings as varied as the basement warehouse of the publisher Victor Gollancz, a hen-hut in Essex and a doss-house in Romford. George Orwell wrote that to be inside the whale, like Jonah, 'is a very comfortable, cosy, homelike thought.' Holman's play shows Orwell outside the whale, in squalor and poverty and hunger. It is a fictional account of the time Orwell spent living as a homeless person, which would later provide material for his essay The Spike and his first book Down and Out in Paris and London |
| Notes |
Originally published: in print in Rafts and dreams; &, Outside the whale. London: Methuen Drama, 1991 |
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Online resource; title from home page (viewed on Oct. 17, 2012) |
| Subject |
Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Drama
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| SUBJECT |
Orwell, George, 1903-1950 fast |
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Authors, English -- Drama
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Homeless persons -- England -- Drama
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Authors, English
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Homeless persons
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Drama
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Drama.
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Théâtre.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Holman, Robert, 1952-2021.
Rafts and dreams ; and, Outside the whale
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