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George Orwell’s political fable
Animal Farm has been voted the nation’s favourite ever school book in research commissioned for World Book Day.
The study, conducted by Oxford Home Schooling, asked 2,000 UK adults which books they most enjoyed reading when at school.
Animal Farm was selected by 25% of respondents.
The novella was followed in the rankings by Charles Dickens’
A Christmas Carol (21%) and John Steinbeck’s
Of Mice and Men (19%).
Harper Lee’s
To Kill A Mockingbird is the most popular school book by a female author (18%), placing sixth on the overall list.
JB Priestley’s
An Inspector Calls is among the most popular school titles for younger Brits. Meanwhile a gender divide opens up over the Bronte sisters’ books – rated highly by women, but low down the rankings for men.
Eman El-Meligi’s slim volume
Deconstructing Hegemony: Contemporary Middle East Literature, Theory, and Historiography is a study of Middle Eastern Laureates invoking the theoretical framework of stalwarts like Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Julia Kristeva, and Patrick Murphy. Eman El-Meligi is a locally spun academic from the University of Alexandria, in Egypt. She has published various books on literary theory in which she has examined Middle Eastern texts with the modernist or postmodernist analytical tools.
Her rigorous analysis and the way she articulates complex ideas are commendable. The writers whose works she has examined in the first chapter of this book are David Grossman an Israeli author, Mourid Barghouti a Palestinian poet and writer, and Louise Erdrich an American novelist, poet and writer of children’s books featuring Native American characters and settings. El-Meligi has also discussed Amos Oz (1939-2018) an Israeli novelist, journalist and intellectual and Sah