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Also by George Orwell:

1984, January 2009
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
All Art Is Propaganda, October 2008
Hardcover
Why I Write, September 2005
Paperback (reprint)
Essays, October 2002
Hardcover
Animal Farm, April 1996
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)

ESSAYS
By: George Orwell

A generous and varied selection?the only hardcover edition available?of the literary and political writings of one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century.

Everyman's Library
October 2002
On Sale: October 15, 2002
1424 pages
ISBN: 0375415033
EAN: 9780375415036
Hardcover
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Fiction

Although best known as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell left an even more lastingly significant achievement in his voluminous essays, which dealt with all the great social, political, and literary questions of the day and exemplified an incisive prose style that is still universally admired. Included among the more than 240 essays in this volume are Orwell’s famous discussion of pacifism, “My Country Right or Left”; his scathingly complicated views on the dirty work of imperialism in “Shooting an Elephant”; and his very firm opinion on how to make “A Nice Cup of Tea.”

In his essays, Orwell elevated political writing to the level of art, and his motivating ideas–his desire for social justice, his belief in universal freedom and equality, and his concern for truth in language–are as enduringly relevant now, a hundred years after his birth, as ever.

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