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The Orwell reader : fiction, essays, and reportage

Orwell, George 1903-1950 (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780156704502
  • Physical Description: 456 pages ; 21 cm.
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  • Publisher: New York : Harcourt,Brace, [1961]

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Formatted Contents Note: Introductin : Richard H. Rovere --Prologue in Burma: Shooting an elephant --A hanging --From Burmese days --The thirties: From down and out in Paris and London --How the poor die --From A clergyman's daughter --From Keep the aspidistra flying --From The road to Wigan Pier --From Homage to Catalonia --From Coming up for air --World War II and after: From The lion and the unicorn: Socialism and the English genius --England your England --Rudyard Kipling --Politics vs. literature: an examination of "Gulliver's travels" --Lear, Tolstoy and the fool --In defense of P.G. Wodehouse --Reflections on Gandhi --Second thoughts on James Burnham --Politics and the English language --The prevention of literature --"I write as I please" --Decline of the English murder --Some thoughts on the common toad --A good word for the Vicar of Bray --Why I write --From Nineteen eighty-four --"Such, such were the joys ..."

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