Politics and the English Language

By George Orwell

Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Reference

Politics and the English Language is George Orwell's 1946 essay on the decline of written English, published in this edition as a short Penguin book. Orwell argues that vague, stale and pretentious language both reflects and enables muddled political thinking, and he offers six plain rules for writing clearly.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “What I give almost everybody who works for me is a copy of George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language, which is a wonderful essay on language and politics and how to write about politics.”