My Country Right or Left: 1940-1943 [Paperback]

Essays, journalism and essays by the brilliant, indispensable George Orwell from 1940 to 1943. Even many decades after his death, the more we read of Orwell, the more clearly we can think about our world and ourselves.

George Orwell served with anti-Stalinist communist forces during the Spanish Civil Waruntil he was forced to flee Spain and return to London. Back in England, he was more convinced than ever of his pro-democratic Socialist beliefs and produced essays such as My Country Right or Left and The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius.

This volume covers a formational period in Orwell's lifeand a crucial period for the world's response to totalitarianism and his own deepening commitment to socialism. Late in 1942, Orwell began regularly for the left-wing weeklyTribuneand, early the next year began work on a new book calledAnimal Farm.

This second volume of theCollected Essays, Journalism, and Lettersby George Orwell will be enjoyed by anyone who believes that words can go a long way toward changing the world.

It is an astonishing tribute to Orwell's gifts as a natural, unaffected writer that, although the historical events he is unfolding are all too bitterly familiar, the reader turns the page as though he did not know what was going to happen. Here, then, is a social, literary, and political history... which, while being intensely personal, never forgets its allegiance to objective truth. The Economist

These four volumes might be the perfect tonic for what ails our society.America Magazine

The nearest thing to Orwells testament is sprawling rather than compact, the four-volumeCollected Essays, Journalism, and Letters. Coedited by Ian Angus and Sonia Orwell, George Orwells widow, it includes nearly all his nonfiction from 1920 to 1950&.The set was first published fifty years ago and was reissued last year il&