http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/keith_gessen en http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/06/orwell-essays-64257-spain http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/06/orwell-essays-64257-spain Thu, 28 May 2009 13:10:28 GMT Keith Gessen Throughout the 1940s, George Orwell was formulating the ideas about language and politics that found their ultimate expression in Nineteen Eighty-Four. His essays from this period are a plain-spoken pleasure, despite their contradictions

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