A volume, comprising around 250 pieces: the deifinitive collection of Orwell's essays. In a beautifully bound, hardback edition.
George Orwell (1903-1950) is one of England's most famous writers and social commentators. He is the author of the classic political satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is also well known for his essays and journalism, particularly his works covering his travels and his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War. His writing is celebrated for its piercing clarity, purpose and wit and his books continue to be bestsellers all over the world.
This massive tome contains a whopping 240 essays by the great English author and is the only hardcover edition of these works on the market. Many of the writings discuss literature, but Orwell's great novels are political, so that subject is covered at length as well. Wonderful to have all this in a single volume. Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.
"Orwell is the most influential political writer of the twentieth
century...He gives us a gritty, personal example of how to engage
as a writer in politics." -"New York Review of Books
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"[Orwell] evolved, in his seemingly offhand way, the clearest and
most compelling English prose style this century...But of course he
was more than just a great writer. We need him today because [of]
his passion for the truth." -"The Sunday Times "(London)
"Had Orwell lived to a full term, he might well have gone on to
become the greatest modern literary critic in the language. But he
lived more than long enough to make writing about politics a branch
of the humanities, setting a standard of civilized response to the
intractably complex texture of life." -"The New Yorker"
"The real reason we read Orwell is because his own fault-line, his
fundamental schism, his hybridity, left him exceptionally sensitive
to the fissure-which is everywhere apparent-between what ought to
be the casep
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