Politics and the English Language and Other Essays (Paperback) - Softcover

Orwell, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849028362 ISBN 13: 9781849028363

Publisher: Benediction Classics, 2010

Synopsis

George Orwell was renowned for his use and analysis of the English language. Anyone interested in language will find these six famous pithy essays instructive and engaging.  

The essays are:

• Politics and the English Language.
• Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels
• The Prevention of Literature
• Why I Write
• Writers and Leviathan.
• Poetry and the Microphone

 

This edition provides generous margins for the reader's notes.

 

George Orwell (born Eric Blair, 1903, Motihari, Bengal, died Jan 1950, London) was a leading British writer of the twentieth century. He studied at Wellington College and Eton (1917-1921) where he was a King's Scholar. After Eton, he followed family tradition and joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, until 1927 when, disgusted by imperialism, he resigned to pursue his boyhood dream of being a writer.

 Orwell was a prolific journalist, essayist, novelist and nonfiction writer. He is remembered for his prescient writing and his unwavering commitment to truth and clarity of expression. His last two novels--Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four--have placed him at the pinnacle of British literature.   He has been called "not the best, but the most important writer who ever lived." (The Economist, 2023)

Edition details

• Publisher: Benediction Classics
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849028362
• ISBN 13: 9781849028363
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110