Politics and the English Language
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- Paperback
32 pages
- Release Date
10 February 2013
Summary
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141393063 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141393068 |
| Author: | George Orwell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 32 |
| Release Date: | 10 February 2013 |
| Weight: | 109g |
| Dimensions: | 182mm x 111mm x 2mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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George Orwell
George Orwell (1903-1950) served with the Imperial Police in Burma, fought with the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, and was a member of the Home Guard and a writer for the BBC during World War II. He is the author of some of the most celebrated works of non-fiction and fiction in the English language.
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