The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell - Vol II

The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell

Volume II My Country Right or Left 1940-1943

Edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus

Penguin, 1982
ISBN 0140031529
Paperback

Condition: Very Good
A little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, age toned pages (see photographs)

“George Orwell requested in his will that no biography of him should be written.  This collection of essays, reviews, articles and letters which he wrote between the ages of seventeen and forty-six (when he died) is arranged in chronological order.  The four volumes provide at once a wonderfully intimate impression of, and a splendid monument to, one of the most honest and individual writers of this century – a man who forged a unique literary manner form the process of thinking aloud, who possessed an unerring gift for going straight to the point, and who elevated political writing into an art.
The second volume principally covers the two years when George Orwell worked as a Talks Assistant (and later Producer) in the Indian section of the B.B.C. At the same time he was writing for Horizon, Tribune, the New Statesman and other periodicals.  His war time diaries are included here.”