George Orwell 
Politics and the English Language and Other Essays 

‘Politics and the English Language and Other Essays’ is a collection of 6 essays by George Orwell.

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

Included in this collection:
– Politics and the English Language
– Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels
– The Prevention of Literature
– Why I Write
– Writers and Leviathan
– Poetry and the Microphone

Circa l’autore

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. As a writer, Orwell produced literary criticism and poetry, fiction and polemical journalism; and is best known for the allegorical novella ‘Animal Farm’ (1945) and the dystopian novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ (1949).