George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1946-1950

George Orwell

D.R. Godine, 2000 - Biography & Autobiography - 555 pages

Essays, journalism and essays by the brilliant, indispensable George Orwell from 1945 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.

About the author

George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on June 25, 1903 in Motihari in Bengal, India and later studied at Eton College for four years. He was an assistant superintendent with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. He left that position after five years and moved to Paris, where he wrote his first two books: Burmese Days and Down and Out in Paris and London. He then moved to Spain to write but decided to join the United Workers Marxist Party Militia. After being decidedly opposed to communism, he served in the British Home Guard and with the Indian Service of the BBC during World War II. After the war, he wrote for the Observer and was literary editor for the Tribune. His best known works are Animal Farm and 1984. His other works include A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia, and Coming Up for Air. He died on January 21, 1950 at the age of 46. Sonia Brownell Orwell, as a young woman, was responsible for transcribing and editing the copy text for the first edition of the Winchester Malory as assistant to the eminent medievalist at Manchester University, Eugene Vinaver. Brownell first met Orwell when she worked as the assistant to Cyril Connolly, a friend of his from Eton College, at the literary magazine Horizon. The two were married in October 1949, only three months before Orwell's death from tuberculosis.

Bibliographic information

• Title: George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1946-1950; Collected Essays, Journalism; George Orwell: The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters /.. In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950, George Orwell; Volume 4 of George Orwell: The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, George Orwell; Volume 89 of Nonpareil book; The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell Series, George Orwell
• Author: George Orwell
• Editors: Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: D.R. Godine, 2000
• ISBN: 1567921361, 9781567921366
• Length: 555 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures; Literary Collections / Essays; Literary Collections / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Collections / Letters; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh