As I Please: 1943-1946 Paperback - 2000
by George Orwell; Sonia Orwell (Editor); Ian Angus (Editor)
From the jacket flap
Considering that much of his life was spent in poverty and ill health, it is something of a miracle that in only forty-six years George Orwell managed to publish ten books and two collections of essays. Here, in four fat volumes, is the best selection of his non-fiction available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism that is breathtaking in its scope and eclectic passions. Orwell had something to say about just about everyone and everything. His letters to such luminaries as Julian Symons, Anthony Powell, Arthur Koestler, and Cyril Connolly are poignant and personal. His essays, covering everything from "English Cooking" to "Literature and Totalitarianism," are memorable, and his books reviews (Hitler's Mein Kampf, Mumford's Herman Melville, Miller's Black Spring, Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield, to name just a few) are among the most lucid and intelligent ever written. From 1943 to 1945, he wrote a regular column for the Tribune, a left wing weekly, entitled "As I Please." His observations about life in Britain during the war embraced everything from anti-American sentiment to the history of domestic appliances.
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- Title As I Please: 1943-1946
- Author George Orwell; Sonia Orwell (Editor); Ian Angus (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition th
- Pages 435
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher David R. Godine Publisher, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
- Date 2000-10
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781567921359 / 1567921353
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.3 in (20.57 x 13.97 x 3.30 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, English - 20th century, Journalists - Great Britain
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 000037540
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
Citations
- Library Journal, 02/01/2001, Page 129
- Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2001, Page 240
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