George Orwell. The Complete Works (Illustrated)

Orwell believed that true prose should be "like a windowpane" and he, himself, strove to write clearly and precisely. His early works, not only those of a journalistic nature, are primarily autobiographical. He outlined what he considered the essence of prose in his essay "Shooting an Elephant" and further developed the ideas in his essay "Politics and the English Language". In this work, Orwell a...