Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780141183060 Number of pages: 496 Weight: 340 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm You may also be interested in. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Bernard Crick. Shooting an Elephant is a George Orwell essay in which he addresses the British people about their imperial government and how it is damaging, harsh. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose, Orwell's essays created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and continue to challenge, move and entertain.
With great originality and wit Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism, from a comic yet profound discussion of naughty seaside postcards to a spirited defence of English cooking. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes 'My Country Right or Left', 'Decline of the English Murder', 'Shooting an Elephant' and 'A Hanging'. of era, some classics, such as A Hanging and Shooting an Elephant. A demanding writer, Orwell requires close attention and. His expression of the political experience of an entire generation gives 1984 a veritably mythic. Orwell aims in his essays to make readers more self-conscious, more aware of how we think and feel. 1984 expresses man’s fears of isolation and disintegration, cruelty and dehumanisationOrwell’s repetition of obsessive ideas is an apocalyptic lamentation for the fate of modern man. The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: Modernist Fable.
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