The Penguin Essays of George Orwell (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Orwell, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140188037 ISBN 13: 9780140188035

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1994

Synopsis

This anthology includes George Orwell's most famous pieces, among them "My Country Right or Left", "Decline of the English Murder" and "How the Poor Die". Orwell writes on a series of wide-ranging topics, from the Spanish Civil War to a defence of English cooking, from Charles Dickens to Rudyard Kipling, P.G. Wodehouse, book reviewing and the nature of socialism.

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Review:

"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 " "[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

Book Description:

A volume, comprising around 250 pieces: the deifinitive collection of Orwell's essays. In a beautifully bound, hardback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140188037
• ISBN 13: 9780140188035
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496