Dec 21, 2009

George Orwell | George Orwell

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Since the mid-1940’s, George Orwell has been considered one of the world’s premier essayists. Combining reportage, the polemical essay, fictional techniques, and refracted autobiographical detail, his works defy precise generic definition. Orwell’s numerous nonfiction works have been compiled in The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell (1968), edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus.

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Although Orwell is widely recognized as one of the best essayists of the twentieth century, his reputation as a...

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