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Why I Write (Paperback)
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Why I Write (Paperback)
Series: Orwell's Essays, 1
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George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and
to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature -
his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new
vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism.
While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic
novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell's essays
seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and
literature to a new readership. In The Prevention of Literature,
the third in the Orwell's Essays series, Orwell considers the
freedom of thought and expression. He discusses the effect of the
ownership of the press on the accuracy of reports of events, and
takes aim at political language, which 'consists almost entirely of
prefabricated phrases bolted together.' The Prevention of
Literature is a stirring cry for freedom from censorship, which
Orwell says must start with the writer themselves: 'To write in
plain vigorous language one has to think fearlessly.'
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