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The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: Volume 1: An Age Like This, 1920-1940by George Orwell
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Considering that much of his life was spent in poverty and ill health, it is something of a miracle that in only forty-six years George Orwell managed to publish ten books and two collections of essays. Here, in four fat volumes, is the best selection of his non-fiction available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism that is breathtaking in its scope and eclectic passions. Orwell had something to say about just about everyone and everything. His letters to such luminaries as Julian Symons, Anthony Powell, Arthur Koestler, and Cyril Connolly are poignant and personal. His essays, covering everything from "English Cooking" to "Literature and Totalitarianism," are memorable, and his books reviews (Hitler's Mein Kampf, Mumford's Herman Melville, Miller's Black Spring, Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield to name just a few) are among the most lucid and intelligent ever written. From 1943 to l945, he wrote a regular column for the Tribune, a left wing weekly, entitled "As I Please." His observations about life in Britain during the war embraced everything from anti-American sentiment to the history of domestic appliances. Book News Annotation:This is the first of four volumes reprinted in paperbound editions
from the 1968 Harcourt, Brace, and World publications. Sonia Orwell
provides a brief introduction in which she describes how the author
of 1984 was a writer who "...wrote nine books and published two
short collections of essays before he died: but in terms of actual
words...produced very much more than seems possible for someone who
died at the age of forty-six...." Presented chronologically, Orwell's
letters give a picture of his life as well as his work.
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