Inside the Whale and Other Stories - Orwell, George

Clean, tight, unmarked; light rubbing to covers; pages are age tanned; crease to bottom inside front corner of cover and first few pages; light sunning to spine; otherwise very minimal wear; The essays in this book, literary, political, or descriptive of experience, are typical of George Orwell and his role as the conscience of an age. From Down the Mine, a description of Orwell's visit to a coal mine which brings home to us in his vivid prose the weight and horror of a miner's work, to Politics and the English Language, where his own crisp exact use of English as much as his actual words give point to his plea for a meaningful use of language, and Boys' Weeklies, a carefully presented and thorough piece of research, they bear out the remarks of Time, ...there are no replacements for a George Orwell, just as there are no replacements for a Bernard Shaw or a Mark Twain ...In his literary criticism and political essays he pricked, provoked, and badgered lazy minds, delighted those who enjoyed watching an original intelligence at work. 
Very Good
Mass Market Paperback
Penguin books
1964
Middlesex, UK