Waterstones On Reading
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Price: £5.00
Brand: Waterstones
Description: George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell's essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. On Reading, the seventh in the Orwell's Essays series, collects together Orwell's short essays on books - 'Bookshop Memories', 'Good Bad Books', 'Nonsense Poetry', 'Books vs. Cigarettes' and 'Confessions of a Book Reviewer' - giving a rounded view of the great writer's opinions on the literature of his day, and the vessels in which it was sold.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781913724986
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781913724986
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Author: P. Zlotowski
Rating: 5
Review: I went as far as preordering this copy because of this: While researching articles that dealt with the matter of reading, Orwell's essays came up as an obvious suggestion. A quick browse of options brought up this print, which put together the articles exactly relevant to my inquiry. When setting out to add collections, rather than each text by themselves, to my shelves, I rarely find them containing exactly what I ask for and nothing else besides. For this sort of quality, I was willing to preorder and wait, even though all the essays by Orwell would be available individually elsewhere. Looking at the concept of "Orwell's Essays" as a series, I would venture to say that Renard Press did a good job at editing and "re-mastering" these classics. Each volume, like the one here, binds together articles and essays by topic, at a decent price. The English is "updated", and annotations are added unobtrusively where necessary. I certainly consider turning this single acquisition into the start of building the series into my own book collection. I say most about the print and little about the texts themselves precisely because they are widely available elsewhere, and much reviewed. But if anything I should say about Orwell's essays, it is that they are lighter than his novels, entertaining to read, inspiring to a degree - and easily consumed, without loss, within the hour after unpacking the parcel.
Author: P. Zlotowski
Rating: 5
Review: I went as far as preordering this copy because of this: While researching articles that dealt with the matter of reading, Orwell's essays came up as an obvious suggestion. A quick browse of options brought up this print, which put together the articles exactly relevant to my inquiry. When setting out to add collections, rather than each text by themselves, to my shelves, I rarely find them containing exactly what I ask for and nothing else besides. For this sort of quality, I was willing to preorder and wait, even though all the essays by Orwell would be available individually elsewhere. Looking at the concept of "Orwell's Essays" as a series, I would venture to say that Renard Press did a good job at editing and "re-mastering" these classics. Each volume, like the one here, binds together articles and essays by topic, at a decent price. The English is "updated", and annotations are added unobtrusively where necessary. I certainly consider turning this single acquisition into the start of building the series into my own book collection. I say most about the print and little about the texts themselves precisely because they are widely available elsewhere, and much reviewed. But if anything I should say about Orwell's essays, it is that they are lighter than his novels, entertaining to read, inspiring to a degree - and easily consumed, without loss, within the hour after unpacking the parcel.
