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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Page 185
... boys ' papers aim at doing this , hence the boy - assistant ( Sexton Blake's Tinker , Nelson Lee's Nipper , etc. ) who usually accompanies the explorer , detec- tive or what - not on his adventures . But in these cases there is only one boy ...
... boys ' papers aim at doing this , hence the boy - assistant ( Sexton Blake's Tinker , Nelson Lee's Nipper , etc. ) who usually accompanies the explorer , detec- tive or what - not on his adventures . But in these cases there is only one boy ...
Page 193
... boys ' papers , though not to anything like the extent one would expect , is bully - worship and the cult of violence . If one compares the Gem and Magnet with a genuinely modern paper , the thing that immediately strikes one is the ...
... boys ' papers , though not to anything like the extent one would expect , is bully - worship and the cult of violence . If one compares the Gem and Magnet with a genuinely modern paper , the thing that immediately strikes one is the ...
Page 201
... boys ' paper ? At first glance such an idea merely makes one slightly sick . It is so horribly easy to imagine what a left - wing boys ' paper would be like , if it existed . I remember in 1920 or 1921 some optimistic person handing ...
... boys ' paper ? At first glance such an idea merely makes one slightly sick . It is so horribly easy to imagine what a left - wing boys ' paper would be like , if it existed . I remember in 1920 or 1921 some optimistic person handing ...
Contents
Bibliographical Note | 7 |
Down the Mine | 51 |
England Your England | 63 |
Copyright | |
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