George Orwell

Broschiertes Buch

Essays

George Orwell

Beschreibung

The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes 'The Spike', 'Bookshop Memories', 'Down The Mine', 'North And South', 'Charles Dickens', 'The English Revolution', 'Looking Back On the Spanish War', 'Freedom Of The Park', 'Future Of The Ruined Germany', 'Nonsense Poetry', 'Notes On Nationalism', 'Books Vs Cigarettes', 'Politics And The English Language', 'The Prevention Of Literature', 'Why I Write', 'Reflections On Gandhi" and Many More. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose, Orwell's essays created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and continue to challenge, move and entertain.

Autor

ERIC ARTHUR BLAIR (1903-1950), pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. After resigning from a position as an Imperial policeman in Burma, he worked as a teacher, a bookseller, and at a variety of menial jobs while he pursued writing. He was wounded fighting in the Spanish Civil War and worked as a journalist during World War II. The publication of Animal Farm brought him worldwide recognition. His last novel, 1984, was published less than a year before his sudden death at the age of forty-six.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Delhi Open Books
• Seitenzahl: 610
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 724g
• ISBN-13: 9788194647362
• ISBN-10: 8194647363
• Artikelnr.: 60324643

Rezensionen

Anyone who wants to understand the twentieth century will still have to read Orwell Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books