Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Vol. 4: In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950 (Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Vol 4) [Hardcover]

George Orwell (Author), Sonia Orwell (Editor), Ian Angus (Editor)

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Publication Date: October 1968 | Series: Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Vol 4

Volume IV covers the years from the publication of Animal Farm to Orwell's death: years shadowed by increaing ill-health. During this time he tried to drop much of his journalism and concentrate on writing Nineteen Eighty-Four, his last book. But in these years he produced many of his finest essays, continued his analysis of the post-war world in articles for the Tribune and other papers and wrote one of his rare straight piees of autobiography in "Such, Such Were the Joys", a description of his private school and a condemnation of such education. It is fascinating to see so many of his worries about events in the post-war world confirmed by their outcome today.

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• Hardcover: 555 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P; 1St Edition edition (October 1968)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0151185492
• ISBN-13: 978-0151185498
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.9 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
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This review is from: Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Vol. 4: In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950 (Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Vol 4) (Hardcover)

Essays and journalism and very good footnotes deal with starvation in Europe, prevention of literature, Gandhi, an attempt to form an organization which would deal with issues like expelling people from their homes, people forced back to Soviet Russia, and much more including civil liberities for anarchists.