The Critical Writings (eBook)

69 Essays and Articles in One Edition: Books vs. Cigarettes; The Lion and the Unicorn, Antisemitism in Britain, Reflections on Gandhi, Not Counting Niggers, Prophecies of Fascism…

George Orwell (Autor)

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2019
1023 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
405-766410053-5 (EAN)

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This meticulously edited collection of George Orwell's Critical Writings is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:
Thoughts on England:
Down the Mine
North and South
Democracy in the British Army
The Lion and the Unicorn
Antisemitism in Britain
In Defence of English Cooking
Decline of the English Murder
Politics and the English Language
Reflections on War and Society:
Spilling the Spanish Beans
Not Counting Niggers
Prophecies of Fascism
Wells, Hitler and the World State
Looking Back on the Spanish War
Who Are the War Criminals?
Future of a Ruined Germany
Revenge is Sour
You and the Atomic Bomb
Notes on Nationalism
Catastrophic Gradualism
Freedom of the Park
How the Poor Die
In Front of Your Nose
Views on Literature, Art & Famous Men:
In Defence of the Novel
Notes on the Way
Charles Dickens
Charles Reade
Inside The Whale
Literature and Totalitarianism
The Art of Donald Mcgill
Rudyard Kipling
W. B. Yeats
Mark Twain
Raffles and Miss Blandish
Arthur Koestler
Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali
Good Bad Books
Nonsense Poetry
In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse
Politics vs. Literature
Confessions of a Book Reviewer
The Prevention of Literature
Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
Writers and Leviathan
Reflections on Gandhi
Book Reviews:
Mein Kampf
Personal Record
The Totalitarian Enemy
The Development of William Butler Yeats
Miscellaneous Writings:
A Farthing Newspaper
The Spike
A Hanging
Bookshop Memories
Shooting an Elephant
Marrakech
New Words
Boys' Weeklies and Frank Richards's Reply
Poetry and the Microphone
The Sporting Spirit
A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray
A Nice Cup of Tea
Pleasure Spots
Riding Down from Bangor
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution
Why I Write
Books vs. Cigarettes
Such, Such Were the Joys
As I Please

Autor

George Orwell (1903-1950) whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.8.2019
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Schlagworte: authoritarian regimes • British society • cultural critique • George Orwell analysis • Literary criticism • Political Commentary • satirical essays • Social commentary • totalitarianism analysis • war reflections