Inside the Whale and Other EssaysIn Politics and the English Language, Orwell puts the case for political writers to use plain English and illustrates his point in essays such as England your England and Inside the Whale, while essays on language and literature consider Gulliver's Travels, Tolstoy and King Lear. |
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... artists , writers , students , dilettanti , sight - seers , debauchees , and plain idlers as the world has probably never seen . In some quarters of the town the so - called artists must actually have outnumbered the working population ...
... artists , writers , students , dilettanti , sight - seers , debauchees , and plain idlers as the world has probably never seen . In some quarters of the town the so - called artists must actually have outnumbered the working population ...
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... artists vanished , and the huge Montparnasse cafés which only ten years ago were filled till the small hours by hordes of shrieking poseurs have turned into darkened tombs in which there are not even any ghosts . It is this world ...
... artists vanished , and the huge Montparnasse cafés which only ten years ago were filled till the small hours by hordes of shrieking poseurs have turned into darkened tombs in which there are not even any ghosts . It is this world ...
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... artists , as though they were merely propagandists putting a ' message ' across . And once again it is obvious that ... artist ' than most writers . But Ulysses could not have been written by someone who was merely dabbling with word ...
... artists , as though they were merely propagandists putting a ' message ' across . And once again it is obvious that ... artist ' than most writers . But Ulysses could not have been written by someone who was merely dabbling with word ...
Contents
Bibliographical Note | 7 |
Down the Mine | 51 |
England Your England | 63 |
Copyright | |
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