George Orwell, non-fiction and selected essays & journalism (1980, first thus)

Containing Down and Out in Paris and London, Homage to Catalonia, Selections from Essays and Journalism 1931 to 1949 (including Such, Such Were the Joys and The Lion and the Unicorn), and The Road to Wigan Pier. Complete and Unabridged

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First edition thus, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 23.5 × 15cm, 840pp.

This volume contains all George Orwell’s full-length works of non-fiction, the bulk of his essays, and a selection of his reviews and occasional journalism.

Down and Out in Paris and London, Homage to Catalonia, and The Road to Wigan Pier are classics of documentary, all three, in their different fashions, reports from the front line. In their form, as in their impact, they transcend conventional reporting. But Orwell also became a journalist because he wanted to be effective, to make his voice heard against the folly, stupidity and despair he saw around him.

What we hear in this volume is the voice of an individual, talking of the themes and events that most urgently concern him, arguing out and clarifying his own ideas in a variety of forms. It is a voice that is always relentlessly questioning, with an equal concern for man and for language.

Condition

A very good copy. The book has some light spotted foxing to the page edges and the wrapper has been neatly price-clipped but otherwise a very solid copy.

ISBN

0905712455

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