The Penguin essays of George Orwell

著者

• Orwell, George

書誌事項

The Penguin essays of George Orwell

（Penguin twentieth-century classics）

Penguin in association with Secker & Warburg, 1994

注記

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This anthology includes George Orwell's most famous pieces, among them "My Country Right or Left", "Decline of the English Murder" and "How the Poor Die". Orwell writes on a series of wide-ranging topics, from the Spanish Civil War to a defence of English cooking, from Charles Dickens to Rudyard Kipling, P.G. Wodehouse, book reviewing and the nature of socialism.

目次

• "Why I Write"
• "The Spike"
• "A Hanging"
• "Shooting an Elephant"
• "Bookshop Memories"
• "Marrakech"
• "Charles Dickens"
• "Boys' Weeklies"
• "Inside the Whale"
• "My Country Right or Left"
• "The Lion and the Unicorn"
• "Wells, Hitler and the World State"
• "The Art of Donald McGill"
• "Rudyard Kipling"
• "Looking Back on the Spanish War"
• "W.B. Yeats"
• "Poetry and the Microphone"
• "Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali"
• "Raffles and Miss Blandish"
• "Arthur Koestler"
• "Antisemitism in Britain"
• "In Defence of P.G. Wodehouse"
• "Notes on Nationalism"
• "Good Bad Books"
• "The Sporting Spirit"
• "Nonsense Poetry"
• "The Prevention of Literature"
• "Books v Cigarettes"
• "Decline of the English Murder"
• "Politics and the English Language"
• "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad"
• "A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray"
• "Confessions of a Book Reviewer"
• "Politics vs Literature: An Examination of "Gulliver's Travels""
• "How the Poor Die"
• "Riding Down from Bangor"
• "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool"
• "Such, Such Were the Joys"
• "Writers and the Leviathan"
• "Reflections on Gandhi".

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA31533474
• ISBN:
  • 0140188037
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Harmondsworth
• ページ数/冊数: xxv, 466 p.
• 大きさ: 20 cm
• 分類:
  • DC19 : 828/.91208
• 件名:
  • PRECIS : Prose in English, 1900-1945 - Texts
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA07487461