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My Country Right or Left - (Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell) by George Orwell (Paperback)

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  • Essays, journalism and essays by the brilliant, indispensable George Orwell from 1940 to 1943.
  • Author(s): George Orwell
  • 477 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, Literary Figures
  • Series Name: Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell

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Essays, journalism and essays by the brilliant, indispensable George Orwell from 1940 to 1943. Even many decades after his death, the more we read of Orwell, the more clearly we can think about our world and ourselves.

George Orwell served with anti-Stalinist communist forces during the Spanish Civil War--until he was forced to flee Spain and return to London. Back in England, he was more convinced than ever of his pro-democratic Socialist beliefs and produced essays such as "My Country Right or Left" and "The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius."

This volume covers a formational period in Orwell's life--and a crucial period for the world's response to totalitarianism and his own deepening commitment to socialism. Late in 1942, Orwell began regularly for the left-wing weekly Tribune and, early the next year began work on a new book called Animal Farm.

This second volume of the Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters by George Orwell will be enjoyed by anyone who believes that words can go a long way toward changing the world.



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"It is an astonishing tribute to Orwell's gifts as a natural, unaffected writer that, although the historical events he is unfolding are all too bitterly familiar, the reader turns the page as though he did not know what was going to happen. Here, then, is a social, literary, and political history... which, while being intensely personal, never forgets its allegiance to objective truth." --The Economist

"These four volumes might be the perfect tonic for what ails our society."--America Magazine

"The nearest thing to Orwell's testament is sprawling rather than compact, the four-volume Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters. Coedited by Ian Angus and Sonia Orwell, George Orwell's widow, it includes nearly all his nonfiction from 1920 to 1950....The set was first published fifty years ago and was reissued last year in a commendable act of literary citizenship by David R. Godine, Inc., a small, semi-legendary Boston publisher. The four volumes are a very rich harvest. All the great essays are here: 'Why I Write, ' 'My Country Right or Left, ' 'Looking Back on the Spanish War, ' 'Notes on Nationalism, ' 'The Prevention of Literature, ' 'Politics and the English Language, ' 'Writers and Leviathan, ' the essays on Dickens, Tolstoy, Kipling, Henry Miller, P. G. Wodehouse, and more."--Commonweal Magazine

"While Orwell is best known for Animal Farm and 1984, most of his writing derived from his tireless work as a journalist, and thanks to this welcome reissue of The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell, which has been out of print for a decade, readers can find it all in one place. All of the author's insightful, hard-hitting essays and journalistic pieces are here...the most complete picture of the writer and man possible."--Kirkus Reviews


Dimensions (Overall): 8.2 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x 1.4 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.35 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 477
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Literary Figures
Series Title: Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Format: Paperback
Author: George Orwell
Language: English
Street Date: April 26, 2007
TCIN: 82963303
UPC: 9781567921342
Item Number (DPCI): 247-17-2545
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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