The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters #2
Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 2 My Country Right or Left 1940 - 1943
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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
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...
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G.k. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox."more...
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Adolf Hitler
An Austrian-born German politician. Born 1889, died 1945. The leader of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer ("leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. As effectively the dictator of Nazi Germany, Hitler was at th...
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Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) was a British statesman, army officer, and writer, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As a Member of Parliament (MP), he represented five constituencies over th...
