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 36
... sort of atmosphere it is not at all easy to imagine what a despotic régime is like . Nearly all the dominant writers of the thirties belonged to the soft - boiled emancipated middle class and were too young to have effective memories of ...
... sort of atmosphere it is not at all easy to imagine what a despotic régime is like . Nearly all the dominant writers of the thirties belonged to the soft - boiled emancipated middle class and were too young to have effective memories of ...
Page 108
... sort of chorus , making the central situation clearer by commenting on it more intelligently than the other characters , but as a foil to Lear's frenzies . His jokes , riddles and scraps of rhyme , and his endless digs at Lear's high ...
... sort of chorus , making the central situation clearer by commenting on it more intelligently than the other characters , but as a foil to Lear's frenzies . His jokes , riddles and scraps of rhyme , and his endless digs at Lear's high ...
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... sort of traditional reputation among people who have never even seen a copy of it . More than once in boys ' weekly papers I have come across a reference to Stalky & Co. in which the word was spelt ' Storky ' . Even the name of the ...
... sort of traditional reputation among people who have never even seen a copy of it . More than once in boys ' weekly papers I have come across a reference to Stalky & Co. in which the word was spelt ' Storky ' . Even the name of the ...
Contents
Bibliographical Note | 7 |
Down the Mine | 51 |
England Your England | 63 |
Copyright | |
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