Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-261) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Reading Orwell : a study plan. Imperfect creatures : letters and diaries -- Not too good : Orwell, Wilde, and the saints -- On common decency -- Between the bullet and the lie : ethics in warfare -- A place worth living in : notes on patriotism and nationalism -- Strict discipline combined with social equality : the question of revolutionary leadership -- Meanwhile, what about socialism? : why the Left fails -- Political writing is bad writing : anarchism and the English language -- The Tower of Babel and other confusions : a reply to CrimethInc -- All but hopeless : pessimism in politics -- The struggle would continue, the idea would survive : the Spanish Civil War and the cultural imagination -- Appendix. Reading Orwell : a study plan.
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