Website review: Political Writings of George Orwell
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•39 reviews since Jul 20, 2003
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Tinney29 rated 4 months ago- A precious collection of George Orwell's political writing.
- vconscious rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "Some Orwell scholars might claim that the title of this website is redundant (since nearly all of Orwell's writings were political) but I deal here with his political observations, not with an appreciation of his literary skills."
- skyscratcher rated 8 months ago
- Good overview of Orwell. Links to his best stuff.
- Skaebear rated 9 months ago
- It is good to keep this page close at hand as a reminder to read things in their proper context. I agree with the page designer that too often Orwell is quoted in support of ideals he would have strongly opposed.
- slocum77a rated 9 months ago
- i can't recommend george orwell's writings enough. please read the entries at this site.
- ahctlucabbuS rated 10 months ago
- "As I Please Tribune, 30 June 1944 I notice that apart from the widespread complaint that the German pilotless planes "seem so unnatural" (a bomb dropped by a live airman is quite natural, apparently), some journalists are denouncing them as barbarous, inhumane and "an indiscriminate attack on civilians." After what we have been doing to the Germans over the past two years, this seems a bit thick, but it is the normal human response to every new weapon. Poison gas, the machine-gun, the submarine, gunpowder, and even the crossbow were similarly denounced in their day. Every weapon seems unfair until you have adopted it yourself. But I would not deny that the pilotless plane, flying bomb, or whatever its correct name may be, is an exceptionally unpleasant thing, because, unlike most other projectiles, it gives you time to think. What is your first reaction when you hear that droning, zooming noise? Inevitably it is a hope that the noise won't stop. You want to hear the bomb pass safely overhead and die away into the distance before the engine cuts out. In other words, you are hoping it will fall on somebody else. So also when you dodge a shell or an ordinary bomb -- but in that case you have only about five seconds to take cover and no time to speculate on the bottomless selfishness of the human being. "
- JimmyConstantine rated 15 months ago
- Say what you will about 1984--but despite what else it is (political satire, allegory, blah, blah), you can not deny the book is also science fiction.
- icmajik rated 15 months ago
- This is a good resource.
