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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 7 January 2021

    • ISBN 9780198804178
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages368 pages
    • Size 195x129x19 mm
    • Weight 254 g
    • Language English
    • 237

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    Short description:

    Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and there are quite a few of his essays which are probably better known than any of his other writings apart from Aminal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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    Long description:

    It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

    George Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and there are quite a few of his essays which are probably better known than any of his other writings apart from Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

    Stefan Collini presents a collection of Orwell's longer, major essays as well as a selection of shorter pieces, arranged into three categories: Personal/Descriptive, Literary, and Political.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    Note on the Text
    Select Bibliography
    A Chronology of George Orwell
    Selected Essays
    Shooting an elephant (1936)
    Inside the whale (1940)
    Charles Dickens (1940)
    Boys' weeklies (1940)
    The art of Donald McGill (1941)
    Wells, Hitler and the world state (1941)
    Rudyard Kipling (1942)
    Raffles and Miss Blandish (1944)
    In defence of P.G. Wodehouse (1945)
    Notes on nationalism (1945)
    The prevention of literature (1946)
    Decline of the English murder (1946)
    Politics and the English language (1946)
    Confessions of a book reviewer (1946)
    Why I write (1946)
    Politics vs literature: an examination of Gulliver's Travels (1946)
    How the poor die (1946)
    Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool (1947)
    Writers and Leviathan (1948)
    Explanatory Notes

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