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Politics and the English Language by George Orwell (Paperback, 2013)

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'Politics and the English Language' is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. '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.

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'The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's reals 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.'

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PublisherPenguin Books LTD

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Book TitlePolitics and the English Language

AuthorGeorge Orwell

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

TopicLiterary Theory

Publication Year2013

Number of Pages32 Pages

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Item Height184mm

Item Width108mm

Item Weight24g

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Title_AuthorGeorge Orwell

Series TitlePenguin Modern Classics

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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by tanitarama
18 Aug, 2020
Nice to have it in print
I could have read the text online, but having a nice little printed copy is so much better. Highly recommended it!
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by DLszM2A7S2W@Deleted
29 Nov, 2018
Classic text about language abuse
Brilliant. Should be compulsory reading for all journalists and BBC creeps!
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by stephen_63861
15 Dec, 2021
Politics and the English language
Very interesting read.
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