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.

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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Stefan Collini is Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature. After degrees at Cambridge and Yale, he taught at the University of Sussex before moving to a post in the Faculty in 1986. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a frequent contributor to The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The Nation, and other periodicals, and an occasional broadcaster.

Inhalt

• 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