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Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one write ... His design was to foster both. In several essays he made his plea for clear writing quite explicit, even listing the habits that ...
John Rodden: H.G. Welles called George Orwell that Trotskyist with big ... One example, from his famous essay, “Why I Write.” Ben Wattenberg: Read it. Go ahead. John Rodden: And Orwell says ...
In short, he sees nationalism as something power-driven, aggressive, expansionistic and in essence ‘bad’, and he ...
Radio 4 presents a journey through the life and work of George Orwell ... For all the beautiful simplicity of his writing and storytelling Orwell/Blair is a complex mass of confusions – an ...
This kind of obscure writing, which writer George Orwell critiqued in his landmark 1946 essay, “Politics and the English Language” leads to costly misunderstandings, missed opportunities ...
Readers of George Orwell’s novel—still reeling ... scraps of useless information,” he confessed in his 1946 essay “Why I ...
Shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States in January 2017, George Orwell’s ... ve spent a lot of time studying Orwell’s writing. I think people were correct ...
His creator and harshest critic, George Orwell (born Eric Arthur Blair ... He famously criticized nebulous prose in his essay “Politics and the English Language” by arguing that fuzzy writing both ...