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Politics and the English Language and Other Essays (Paperback)

Politics and the English Language and Other Essays (Paperback)

Politics and the English Language and Other Essays (Paperback)

George Orwell

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Benediction Books
Año de edición:
2010
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Política y gobierno
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9781849028363
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George Orwell was renowned for his use and analysis of the English language. Anyone interested in language will find these six famous pithy essays instructive and engaging.  The essays are: Politics and the English Language.Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s TravelsThe Prevention of LiteratureWhy I WriteWriters and Leviathan.Poetry and the Microphone This edition provides generous margins for the reader’s notes.  George Orwell (born Eric Blair, 1903, Motihari, Bengal, died Jan 1950, London) was a leading British writer of the twentieth century. He studied at Wellington College and Eton (1917-1921) where he was a King’s Scholar. After Eton, he followed family tradition and joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, until 1927 when, disgusted by imperialism, he resigned to pursue his boyhood dream of being a writer. Orwell was a prolific journalist, essayist, novelist and nonfiction writer. He is remembered for his prescient writing and his unwavering commitment to truth and clarity of expression. His last two novels--Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four--have placed him at the pinnacle of British literature.   He has been called 'not the best, but the most important writer who ever lived.' (The Economist, 2023)

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