![]() ![]() Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson essays radical and inspiring poems moving and disturbing stories surreal and fabulous taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space. Uncertainty about what is truly going on makes it simpler to hold to irrational views.' From the man who wrote more about his country than anybody, razor-sharp thoughts on patriotism, bigotry, and power. ![]() Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Political theorist Gregory Claeys insists it is a key source for understanding Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. ![]() ' The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs'īiting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote about his nation better than anyone. 'Notes on Nationalism' is an essay completed in May 1945 by George Orwell and published in the first issue of the British magazine Polemic in October 1945. ![]()
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