Inside the Whale: On Writers and Writing

George Orwell's essays explore literature as a record of political hypocrisies, social failings, and ideological aspirations, featuring dusty classics and lesser-known works. They celebrate Orwell's engagement with writers and literature, offering thrilling reading experiences.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 07 January 2021
Publisher: Pushkin Press

Unquestionably graceful and perpetually pertinent, the four essays contained within this collection perceive literature as a vital chronicle of our political duplicity, societal inadequacies, and the noble boundaries of our ideological aspirations. Diving into the vast expanse of the literary canon, George Orwell engages with dusty classics and lesser-known works on his own exhilarating terms. The novels of Henry Miller transport him into the depths of Jonah's whale, an imagined sanctuary in the midst of a tumultuous era of conflict. A penetrating examination of Charles Dickens unravels into a poignant portrayal of nineteenth-century liberalism. A modest pamphlet on Shakespeare by Tolstoy ignites a stirring recollection of humanism and the boundless vitality of existence. A series of singularly exhilarating reading experiences, they commemorate Orwell's profound engagement with the world of writers and literature.

Weight: 192g
Dimension: 163 x 120 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781782276753