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Politics and the English Language

Horizon, April 1946.  Recorded as completed in Orwell’s Payments Book on 11 December 1945. Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is...

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George Orwell’s notes for “Politics and the English Language”

February to October 1945? At the end of the exercise book in which Orwell wrote his Domestic Diary III, 7 May to 8 October 1946 and 4 and 5 January 1947, are notes for Politics and the English...

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Letter to Fredric Warburg (24 August 1949)

Cranham Lodge, Cranham, Gloucester 24 August 1949 Dear Fred, Thanks so much for your letter & good wishes. I arranged with Moreland to come to his London hospital for a month or two, but haven’t...

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George Orwell’s rules for effective writing

Excerpt from Politics and the English Language (1946) by George Orwell. Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is...

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The Orwell Reader (Part 1)

A collection of some of George Orwell’s best essays: A Hanging (1931) Shooting an Elephant (1936) Rudyard Kipling (1942) Looking Back on the Spanish War (1942) In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse (1945)...

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Doublethink

Doublethink, a word coined by George Orwell in his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, describes the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct, often in distinct...

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