George Orwell

Selected Essays

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• Collins Classics
• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 128mm x 198mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 156g
• ISBN-13: 9780008699437
• ISBN-10: 0008699437
• Artikelnr.: 70141725

Autorenporträt

George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950). A renowned journalist, essayist, critic and novelist, he is best known for his novels Animal Farm and 1984, and his work remains influential to this day.

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Inhaltsangabe

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