In 1946, toward the end of his career but with one great novel still to be written, Orwell published an essay called 'Why I Write', reflecting on his aims and motives. This paper is helpfully reprinted right at the beginning of the otherwise chronologically arranged four volumes of Collected...
Where is there a place in this hall of mirrors for either personality or fraternity?——Essay on psychology in Politics (New York) 4. All the ‘best people’ from the gentlemen's clubs, and all the frantic fascist captains, united in common hatred of Socialism and bestial horror at the r...
the Milton who once seemed not unlike a seventeenth-century Shelley had not become, out of an experience ever more bitter in each year, more alien [sic] to the founder of that Jesuit sect which nothing could induce him to tolerate.——Professor Harold Laski (Essay in Freedom of Expression)...
British writer whose books attack totalitarianism and reflect his concern with social justice. His works include the novelsAnimal Farm(1945) and1984(1949) and the essay collectionShooting an Elephant(1950). American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by...
Joseph M. Williams has shown that George Orwell, in his famous essay "Politics and the English Language," "in the very act of criticizing the passive... William S. Robinson - Teaching English in the Two-Year College 被引量: 4发表: 2000年 ...
Essay on psychology inPolitics(New York ) All the "best people" from the gentlemen's clubs, and all the frantic fascist captains, united in common hatred of Socialism and bestial horror at the rising tide of the mass revolutionary movement, have turned to acts of provocation, to foul incendi...
Politics and the English Language is widely considered Orwell s most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, ...
Essay on psychology inPolitics(New York) 4. All the "best people" from the gentlemen's clubs, and all the frantic fascist captains, united in commonhatred of Socialism and bestial horror at the rising tide of the mass revolutionary movement, have turned to acts of provocation, to foul incen...
Orwell was also a prolific essayist, and it is for these works that he was perhaps best known during his lifetime. They include Why I Write and Politics and the English Language. His writing is at once insightful, poignant and entertaining, and continues to be read widely all over the ...
George Orwell's Classic Essay on Writing: The Best Style 'Handbook' for Lawyers and Judges. (cover story) The article discusses the reported importance of author George Orwell's 1946 essay on writing entitled "Politics and the English Language," focusing on the... Abrams,Douglas,E. - 《Tenn...