The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell “The nearest thing to Orwell’s testament is sprawling rather than compact, the four-volume Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters. Coedited by Ian Angus and Sonia Orwell, George Orwell’s widow, it includes nearly all his nonfiction from 1920 to 1950….The set was first published fifty years ago and was reissued last year in a commendable act of literary citizenship by David R. Godine, Inc., a small, semi-legendary Boston publisher. The four volumes are a very rich harvest. All the great essays are here: ‘Why I Write,’ ‘My Country Right or Left,’ ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War,’ ‘Notes on Nationalism,’ ‘The Prevention of Literature,’ ‘Politics and the English Language,’ ‘Writers and Leviathan,’ the essays on Dickens, Tolstoy, Kipling, Henry Miller, P. G. Wodehouse, and more."—Commonweal Magazine "What I have most wanted to do… is to make political writing into an art." An Age Like This: 1920-1940 Witnessing executions in Burma (“A Hanging” and "Shooting an Elephant”), being down and out in Paris (“A Day in the Life of a Tramp”), bookselling in Hampstead (“Bookshop Memories”), Orwell's breadth of experience and compassion make his early essays among his best. My Country Right or Left: 1940-1943 After the Spanish Civil War, Orwell was in London during the Blitz where he remained true to his anti-totalitarian and pro-democratic Socialist beliefs. Among the many pieces still revelatory today are “My Country Right or Left” and “The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius.” As I Please: 1943-1945 Rejected for service during the war, Orwell became literary editor of the Tribune. Included in this volume are reviews of works by authors as varied as C. S. Lewis and Arthur Koestler, the newspaper column, “As I Please,” the brilliant essay, “A Nice Cup of Tea,” letters to T. S. Eliot, among others, while trying to convince publishers to take a chance on a book called Animal Farm. In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950 During the post-war years, Orwell published Nineteen Eighty-Four and many of his greatest essays, “You and the Atomic Bomb”, “Politics and the English Language,” “The Prevention of Literature,” and “Why I Write.” This, together with the three preceding volumes, create the record of an imperishable mind.
✔ Author(s): George Orwell,Sonia Orwell,Ian Angus
✔ Title: The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell
✔ Rating : 4.8 out of 5 base on (72 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 1567921337
✔ ISBN-13: 9781567921335
✔ Language: English
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