George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940

George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781567921335

In his 46 years, Orwell managed to publish ten books and two collections of essays. This volume, one in a set of four, brings together a selection of his non-fiction work - letters, essays, reviews and journalism. His work is broad in scope, moving from English cooking to totalitarianism.

The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950

The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950
Author: George Orwell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 621
Release: 1970
Genre:
ISBN: 9780140187144

This last volume contains the letters, reviews and other pieces which George Orwell wrote during the last five years of his life; they include Such, Such Were the Joys, a reminiscence of his preparatory school. Animal Farm had eventually relieved him of financial worry, but during the drafting and writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four he was increasingly handicapped by the illness of which he died, early in 1950.

The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: My country right or left, 1940-1943

The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: My country right or left, 1940-1943
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Total Pages: 506
Release: 1968
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

George Orwell is a major figure in twentieth-century literature. During his lifetime he published ten books and two collections of essays. Orwell seldom "reported" and he never took a line other than the one himself felt at the moment of writing. His essays are certainly some of the greatest in that most difficult genre. His widow and her co-editor have collected everything Orwell would have considered an essay, all the journalism that was not purely ephemeral, and those letters which contribute to our understanding of his life and writing. The material is arranged chronologically, and gives a continuous picture of Orwell's life as well as his work. -- From publisher's description.

Politics and the English Language and Other Essays

Politics and the English Language and Other Essays
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: epubli
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2021-01-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3753145165

"Politics and the English Language and Other Essays" is a collection of 6 essays by George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. Included in this collection: - 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

Orwell On Truth

Orwell On Truth
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2018-04-03
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1328508714

Over the course of his career, George Orwell wrote about many things, but no matter what he wrote the goal was to get at the fundamental truths of the world. He had no place for dissemblers, liars, conmen, or frauds, and he made his feelings well-known. In Orwell on Truth, excerpts from across Orwell’s career show how his writing and worldview developed over the decades, profoundly shaped by his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, and further by World War II and the rise of totalitarian states. In a world that seems increasingly like one of Orwell’s dystopias, a willingness to speak truth to power is more important than ever. With Orwell on Truth, readers get a collection of both powerful quotes and the context for them.

Good as Gold

Good as Gold
Author: Joseph Heller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1997
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0684839741

Dr. Bruce Gold, a forty-eight-year-old Jewish professor of English, faces the possibilities of being appointed to a high State Department position and being disowned by his family.

The Road to Wigan Pier

The Road to Wigan Pier
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: Modernista
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2024-04-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9180948650

George Orwell provides a vivid and unflinching portrayal of working-class life in Northern England during the 1930s. Through his own experiences and meticulous investigative reporting, Orwell exposes the harsh living conditions, poverty, and social injustices faced by coal miners and other industrial workers in the region. He documents their struggles with unemployment, poor housing, and inadequate healthcare, as well as the pervasive sense of hopelessness and despair that permeates their lives. In the second half of the The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell delves into the complexities of political ideology, as he grapples with the shortcomings of both socialism and capitalism in addressing the needs of the working class. GEORGE ORWELL was born in India in 1903 and passed away in London in 1950. As a journalist, critic, and author, he was a sharp commentator on his era and its political conditions and consequences.