The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters #2
Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 2 My Country Right or Left 1940 - 1943
0 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1968
This edition
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0 pages, Paperback
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January 1, 1971 by Harcourt Trade Publishers
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9780156186247
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0156186241
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English
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Joseph Stalin
The leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Under Stalins rule, the concept of "socialism in one country" became a central tenet of Soviet society. He established a highly centralized command economy, launching a perio...
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Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (1885 - 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (19...
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Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, KSMOM GCTE (1883 - 1945) was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism. He became the Prime Minister of Italy in 1922 and began u...
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George Orwell
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both authoritarian communism and...
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family. He graduated from Balliol College at the University of Oxford with a first-class honours in English literature.He was best known f...
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D.h. Lawrence
An English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and v...
About the author
Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture.
Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"—describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices—is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Room 101", "Newspeak", "memory hole", "doublethink", and "thoughtcrime". In 2008, The Times named Orwell the second-greatest British writer since 1945.
