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- Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:26:40 EST
- From: <HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
- Message-ID: <92364.212640HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: _1984_ and "they"
- References: <12215@kesson.ed.ac.uk>
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- In article <12215@kesson.ed.ac.uk>, iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- says:
- >
- >I haven't read anything else by G Orwell, so I don't know what happens
- >in his other books, though I intend to find out in the very near future.
-
- Orwell was among the best writers of the 20th c. Reading him is never
- a mistake. Among his novels, after _1984_, the best is probably _Coming
- Up for Air_. But most of his best stuff is not in his novels. _Homage
- to Catalonia_, _The Road to Wigan Pier_, _Down and Out in Paris and
- London_ are all really well worth reading, whether all of them are
- literal reportage or not. And he was one of the best essayists in
- our language: check out the four-volume _Collected Essays, Journalism,
- and Letters_.
-
- H.
-
- Herschel Browne
- "The" American University
-