In Front of Your Nose: 1946-1950

By George Orwell

Book Overview

Essays, journalism and essays by the brilliant, indispensable George Orwell from 1946 to 1950. Even many decades after his death, the more we read of Orwell, the more clearly we can think about our world and ourselves.

In the years following the end of the Second World War, Orwell published many of his greatest essays: "You and the Atomic Bomb", "Politics and the English Language," "The Prevention of Literature," and "Why I Write." All these, and more, are included here--along with correspondence and other pieces that provide fascinating insight into his dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, newspeak, memory hole--all invented by Orwell to describe the workings of a totalitarian state. Orwell wrote his greatest novel while suffering from tuberculous and he died the year after its publication in 1950. This is collection of writing, however, creates the astonishing record of an imperishable mind.

This fourth volume of the Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters by George Orwell will be enjoyed by anyone who believes that words can go a long way toward changing the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567921361
• ISBN13: 9781567921366
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
• Length: 555 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Better than the Orwell reader book

Gives you an idea of his politics, reviews and the presures of an reviewer of both US and GB published titles 5 years prior to his death. Letters, reviews, and timescale which give an idea of the authors concerns, rather than what a biographer interpets it to be be.Revealing for those who have read most of Orwells output.