Essays

Essays

Unabridged EditionBy George Orwell
Michael Caine
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Length26h 38m

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Here are collected all Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes 'Decline of the English Murder', 'Shooting an Elephant' and 'A Hanging'. The essays that make up this collection testify to the greatness and genius of Orwell also as political writer. Whatever the subject is, the attitude adopted is always one of direct testimony and personal disinterestedness: it is an elementary yet subversive formula, the same one at the origin of the non-alignment that long made Orwell, a refractory individualist, an anarchic pauperist, so unemphatic, a writer who seemed suspicious to the right and to the left at the same time.

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GenrePolitics and Government, Psychology, Other
Length26 hrs 38 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Chapter
2By the same author for Cactus:
3THE SPIKE
4A HANGING (1931)
5SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT (1936)
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6DOWN THE MINE (1937) (FROM "THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER")
7NORTH AND SOUTH (FROM "THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER") (1937)
8SPILLING THE SPANISH BEANS (1937)
9MARRAKECH (1939)
10BOYS' WEEKLIES AND FRANK RICHARDS'S REPLY (1940)
11CHARLES DICKENS (1940)
12I
13II
14III
15IV
16V
17VI
18CHARLES READE (1940)
19INSIDE THE WHALE (1940)
20I
21II
22III
23THE ART OF DONALD MCGILL (1941)
24THE LION AND THE UNICORN: SOCIALISM AND THE ENGLISH GENIUS (1941)
25Part I
26i.
27ii.
28iii.
29iv.
30v.
31vi.
32Part II
33i.
34ii.
35iii.
36PART III: THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION
37i.
38ii.
39iii.
40WELLS, HITLER AND THE WORLD STATE (1941)
41LOOKING BACK ON THE SPANISH WAR (1942)
421.
432.
443.
454.
465.
476.
487.
49RUDYARD KIPLING (1942)
50MARK TWAIN—THE LICENSED JESTER (1943)

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