George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1946
- ISBN-10
- 1567921353
- ISBN-13
- 9781567921359
- Series
- George Orwell
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 435
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- David R. Godine Publisher
- Author
- George Orwell
Description
George Orwell is a major figure in twentieth-century literature. The author of Down and Out in Paris and London, Nineteen Eighty-four, and Animal Farm, he published ten books and two collections of essays during his lifetime - but in terms of actual words, produced much more than seems possible for someone who died at the age of forty-six and was often struggling against poverty and ill health. His essays, letters, and journalism are among the most memorable, lucid, and intelligent ever written, the work of a master craftsman and a brilliant mind. Taken as a whole they form an essential collection, and read in toto and sequentially, they provide a remarkably literary self-portrait of an engaged, and consistently engaging, writer. Here, in four volumes, is the best selection of his nonfiction writing now available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism that is breathtaking in its scope and eclectic passions.
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