#4 The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters

In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950

George Orwell
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In Front of Your Nose features Orwell's final writings, including extracts from his manuscript notebook, as well as details of his remarriage and adoption of a son, notes on the writing and publication of Nineteen Eighty-four, as well as reviews of books by Jean-Paul Sartre and Graham Greene, an examination of politics and literature in Gulliver's Travels, and the hidden meanings of "nonsense poetry." --From the 2000 edition.
Genres: EssaysNonfictionPoliticsJournalismClassicsHistoryLiteratureCriticismBritish LiteratureBiography
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