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Selected Essays

George Orwell
Edited by Stefan Collini

07 January 2021

ISBN: 9780198804178

368 pages
Paperback
196x129mm

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Oxford World's Classics

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Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and there are quite a few of his essays which are probably better known than any of his other writings apart from Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and there are quite a few of his essays which are probably better known than any of his other writings apart from Aminal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

  • Brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a selection of shorter pieces
  • Stefan Collini's introduction places the essays in context and explains the arrangement into three categories: Personal/Descriptive, Literary, and Political
  • Uses authoritative texts of Orwells essays taken from the editions overseen by Orwell and then checked against later scholarly versions
  • Includes extensive notes, a chronology, and guidance on further reading

About the Author(s)

George Orwell

Edited by Stefan Collini, Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge

Stefan Collini is Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature. After degrees at Cambridge and Yale, he taught at the University of Sussex before moving to a post in the Faculty in 1986. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a frequent contributor to The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The Nation, and other periodicals, and an occasional broadcaster.

Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Note on the Text
    Select Bibliography
    A Chronology of George Orwell
    Selected Essays
    Shooting an elephant (1936)
    Inside the whale (1940)
    Charles Dickens (1940)
    Boys' weeklies (1940)
    The art of Donald McGill (1941)
    Wells, Hitler and the world state (1941)
    Rudyard Kipling (1942)
    Raffles and Miss Blandish (1944)
    In defence of P.G. Wodehouse (1945)
    Notes on nationalism (1945)
    The prevention of literature (1946)
    Decline of the English murder (1946)
    Politics and the English language (1946)
    Confessions of a book reviewer (1946)
    Why I write (1946)
    Politics vs literature: an examination of Gulliver's Travels (1946)
    How the poor die (1946)
    Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool (1947)
    Writers and Leviathan (1948)
    Explanatory Notes

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