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- Herausgeber: Renard Press
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell's essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell's Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the 'four great motives for writing' – 'sheer egoism', 'aesthetic enthusiasm', 'historical impulse' and 'political purpose' – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell's mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer's oeuvre.
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why i write
the orwell’s essays series
i. Why I Write
ii. Politics and the English Language
iii. The Prevention of Literature
iv. Politics vs. Literature
v. Shooting an Elephant
vi. England Your England
vii. Orwell on Reading
viii. Inside the Whale
ix. A Hanging
x. Decline of the English Murder
Why I Write
george orwell
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Why I Write first published in 1946
This edition first published by Renard Press Ltd in 2021
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Why I Write
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why i write
From a very early age,perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature, and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.
I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpop
