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Orwell: Essays: Introduction by John Carey (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) Hardcover - 2002
by Orwell, George
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- Title Orwell: Essays: Introduction by John Carey (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
- Author Orwell, George
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Second Printing
- Condition New
- Pages 1416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Everyman's Library, New York
- Date 2002-10-15
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # 531ZZZ00MPKB_ns
- ISBN 9780375415036 / 0375415033
- Weight 2.65 lbs (1.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.2 x 2.5 in (20.57 x 13.21 x 6.35 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects English essays - 20th century
- Dewey Decimal Code 824.912
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Summary
These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.
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A generous and varied selection--the only hardcover edition available--of the literary and political writings of one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century.
Though best known as the author of" Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four," George Orwell left an even more lastingly significant achievement in his voluminous essays, which dealt with all the great social, political, and literary questions of the day and exemplified an incisive prose style that is still universally admired. Included among the more than 240 essays in this volume are Orwell's famous discussion of pacifism, "My Country Right or Left," his scathingly complicated views on the dirty work of imperialism in "Shooting an Elephant," and his very firm opinion on how to make "A Nice Cup of Tea." In his essays, Orwell elevated political writing to the level of art, and his motivating ideas--his desire for social justice, his belief in universal freedom and equality, and his concern for truth in language--are as enduringly relevant now, a hundred years after his birth, as ever.
Though best known as the author of" Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four," George Orwell left an even more lastingly significant achievement in his voluminous essays, which dealt with all the great social, political, and literary questions of the day and exemplified an incisive prose style that is still universally admired. Included among the more than 240 essays in this volume are Orwell's famous discussion of pacifism, "My Country Right or Left," his scathingly complicated views on the dirty work of imperialism in "Shooting an Elephant," and his very firm opinion on how to make "A Nice Cup of Tea." In his essays, Orwell elevated political writing to the level of art, and his motivating ideas--his desire for social justice, his belief in universal freedom and equality, and his concern for truth in language--are as enduringly relevant now, a hundred years after his birth, as ever.
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Citations
- Atlantic Monthly, 11/01/2002, Page 108
- BookPage, 10/01/2002, Page 18
- Library Journal, 01/15/2003, Page 0