Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose, Orwell's essays created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and continue to challenge, move and entertain. 9 The essay was originally intended for George Weidenfeld 's Contact magazine but it was turned down. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes 'The Spike', 'Bookshop Memories', 'Down The Mine', 'North And South', 'Charles Dickens', 'The English Revolution', 'Looking Back On the Spanish War', 'Freedom Of The Park', 'Future Of The Ruined Germany', 'Nonsense Poetry', 'Notes On Nationalism', 'Books Vs Cigarettes', 'Politics And The English Language', 'The Prevention Of Literature', 'Why I Write', 'Reflections On Gandhi" and Many More. Included among the more than 240 essays in this volume are Orwells famous discussion of pacifism, My Country Right or Left his scathingly complicated views. The essay was originally published in the April 1946 issue of the journal Horizon (volume 13, issue 76, pages 252265) 8 it was Orwell's last major article for the journal. One is the difficulty of categorisation, when Orwell himself described this ‘essay’ as ‘a story’, suggesting it was fiction rather than an account of a real-life event.
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