Selected Essays
1st Edition
Published on 7. January 2021
272 pages
978-0-19-252618-2 (ISBN)
Description
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
George 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.
Stefan Collini presents a collection of Orwell's longer, major essays as well as a selection of shorter pieces, arranged into three categories: Personal/Descriptive, Literary, and Political.
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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.
Content
- Cover
- Oxford World's Classics: George Orwell: Selected Essays
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Select Bibliography
- Editions
- Biography
- Bibliography
- Critical Studies
- Historical and Contextual Studies
- Further Reading in Oxford World's Classics
- A Chronology of George Orwell
- Selected Essays
- Shooting an Elephant
- Charles Dickens
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- Boys' Weeklies
- Inside the Whale
- I
- II
- III
- Wells, Hitler and the World State
- The Art of Donald McGill
- Rudyard Kipling
- Raffles and Miss Blandish
- In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse
- Notes on Nationalism
- Positive Nationalism
- Transferred Nationalism
- Negative Nationalism
- The Prevention of Literature
- Decline of the English Murder
- Politics and the English Language
- Confessions of a Book Reviewer
- Why I Write
- Politics vs Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels
- How the Poor Die
- Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
- Writers and Leviathan
- Explanatory Notes
- Shooting an Elephant
- Charles Dickens
- Boys' Weeklies
- Inside the Whale
- Wells, Hitler and the World State
- The Art of Donald McGill
- Rudyard Kipling
- Raffles and Miss Blandish
- In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse
- Notes on Nationalism
- The Prevention of Literature
- Decline of the English Murder
- Politics and the English Language
- Confessions of a Book Reviewer
- Why I Write
- Politics vs Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels
- How the Poor Die
- Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
- Writers and Leviathan
- End Adds
