George Orwell: essays

by Orwell, George

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Title Statements

Full title :George Orwell : essays.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2000, ©1984.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Penguin Books in association with Secker & Warburg
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2000, ©1984.

Notes

Originally published as: The Penguin essays of George Orwell, 1984.

The Physical Object

Description:xxv, 466 pages ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0141183063, 9780141183060
oclc:ocm43672595
LC Classification:PR6029.R8
Dewey Decimal:824.912

Why I write -- The spike -- A hanging -- Shooting an elephant -- Bookshop memories -- Marrakech -- Charles Dickens -- Boys' weeklies -- Inside the whale -- My country right or left -- The lion and the unicorn -- Wells, Hitler and the world state -- The art of Donald McGill -- Rudyard Kipling -- Looking back on the Spanish War -- W.B. Yeats -- Poetry and the microphone -- Benefit of clergy: some notes on Salvador Dali -- Raffles and Miss Blandish -- Arthur Koestler -- Antisemitism in Britain -- In defence of P.G. Wodehouse -- Notes on Nationalism -- Good bad books -- The sporting spirit -- Nonsense poetry -- The prevention of literature -- Books v. cigarettes -- Decline of the English murder -- Politics and the English language -- Some thoughts on the common toad -- A good word for the Vicar of Bray -- Confessions of a book reviewer -- Politics vs literature: an examination of Gulliver's travels -- How the poor die -- Riding down from Bangor -- Lear, Tolstoy and the fool -- Such, such were the joys -- Writers and Leviathan -- Reflections on Gandhi.