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These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.
| ISBN | 0141183063 | | Pages | 496 | | ISBN13 | 9780141183060
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 341 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Penguin Classics | | Series editor | Phillips, Adam, Phillips, Adam, Phillips, Adam | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Penguin Modern Classics | | Publication date | 29 Jun 2000 | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Writer of introduction | Bernard Crick | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 824.912 | | Spine width (mm) | 21 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | General |
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| | | Introduction by Bernard Crick | | | | | | Bibliographical Note | | | | | | Why I Write | | 1 | | | | The Spike | | 7 | | | | A Hanging | | 14 | | | | Shooting an Elephant | | 18 | | | | Bookshop Memories | | 25 | | | | Marrakech | | 29 | | | | Charles Dickens | | 35 | | | | Boys' Weeklies | | 78 | | | | Inside the Whale | | 101 | | | | My Country Right or Left | | 133 | | | | The Lion and the Unicorn | | 138 | | | | Wells, Hitler and the World State | | 188 | | | | The Art of Donald McGill | | 193 | | | | Rudyard Kipling | | 203 | | | | Looking Back on the Spanish War | | 216 | | | | W. B. Yeats | | 233 | | | | Poetry and the Microphone | | 239 | | | | Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali | | 248 | | | | Raffles and Miss Blandish | | 257 | | | | Arthur Koestler | | 268 | | | | Antisemitism in Britain | | 278 | | | | In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse | | 287 | | | | Notes on Nationalism | | 300 | | | | Good Bad Books | | 318 | | | | The Sporting Spirit | | 321 | | | | Nonsense Poetry | | 324 | | | | The Prevention of Literature | | 328 | | | | Books v. Cigarettes | | 341 | | | | Decline of the English Murder | | 345 | | | More... | | |
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