Politics English Language by George Orwell (97 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. George Orwell's essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. It is about the importance of writing concisely, clearly and precisely and the dangers to our ability to think when language, especially political language, is obscured by vague, cliched phrases and hackneyed metaphors. In it, he argues that when political discourse trades clarity and precision for stock phrases, the debasement of politics follows.First published in Horizon in 1946, Orwell's essay was soon recognised as an important text, circulated by newspaper editors to their journalists and reprinted in magazines and anthologies of contemporary writing. It continues to be relevant to our own age.'To read a speech by a contemporary politician, an article in a broadsheet newspaper or a communication from a government department is to be plunged straightaway into a landscape where the euphemisms, wool-pulling and downright duplicity that Orwell complained about back in 1946 are all going strong.' - D.J. Taylor This essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. In it, Orwell argues that when political discourse trades clarity and precision for stock phrases, the debasement of politics follows. First published in 'Horizon' in 1946, Orwells ideas continue to be relevant to our own age. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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First edition in book form of an important essay on political language, which, according to the author, "is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind". Publisher's original stapled grey card covers printed in black. Illustrations by Merrill Snethen. A fine copy. The essay, originally published in Horizon Magazine (Vol. 13, No.76, April 1946) and in abridged form in The New Republic (17th and 24th June 1946) is printed here in book form as a "Keepsake for Typophiles" in an edition of 320 copies (December 1947). There were also editions of 100 copies (for Herbert W. Simpson) and 50 copies (for friends of Paul Bennett). (Fenwick C.679) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Condition: Fine. 12mo, 24[2] pages, original gray printed wrappers. Internally clean and bright; Professor Richard Dale's copy, with his name stamp on first leaf. Professor Dale was an author, scholar on world affairs, especially South Africa, and he delivered many lectures before the United Nations.

Dust jacket with small marks,uncliped,jacket designed by Robin Collomb. THE ESSAY ON DICKENS HAS BEEN UNDERLINED HEAVLIY. Small ink mark on foredge. overall very good condition.434 pp.14 x 22.5 cm.

First Edition. First edition. [16] pp. Bound in publisher's stapled wraps. Very Good with a faint cup ring to the front wrap, a few other very light stains to wraps but contents in very nice shape. The first book publication of an essay that first appeared in the magazines Horizons in the UK and The New Republic in the US, "Printed as a Christmas Keepsake for the Typophiles" according to the title page. It has inspired nearly as many writers as Orwell's famous novels, as a concise statement of a marriage of both linguistic and political principles.