Orwell and Politics
Author(s): George Orwell; Peter Davison (Editor)
Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This major new collection brings together the best of George Orwell's powerful political essays and journalism with his evergreen satire on totalitarianism, Animal Farm. They show the vast range of his political interests, with articles expressing his views on subjects from corrupt political language to the oppressive British Empire; his masterly wartime Socialist polemic, 'The Lion and the Unicorn'; a wry review of Mein Kampf; a defence of Nineteen Eighty-Four; and extracts from his controversial list of 'Crypto-communists'. These writings are testament to Orwell's lifelong passion for politics, for telling unpalatable truths and exposing injustice, yet doing so with wit and humanity- in his words, making 'political writing into an art'.
Product Information
Born in India in 1903 George Orwell moved to England with his family in 1907. He was educated at Eton and joined the Indian Imperial Police, serving five years in Burma before returning to Europe. The period of poverty that followed inspired DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON (1933). In 1937 he published THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER. His political convictions led him to fight for the Republicans in Spain and to write HOMAGE TO CATALONIA. In 1945 ANIMAL FARM was published. Orwell died of TB in 1950.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books
- : Penguin Books
- : 0.451
- : 01 May 2001
- : 198mm X 129mm X 23mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : George Orwell; Peter Davison (Editor)
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 320/.092
- : good
- : 560