On the Media: George Packer -- Orwell and the English Language

Orwell and the English Language
On the Media (WNYC/NPR)
Host: Brooke Gladstone



Best known for his novels 1984 and Animal Farm, George Orwell's mastery of clear language is nowhere more evident than in his essays. New Yorker staff writer George Packer, who has compiled some of these shorter works into two volumes, says Orwell's voice was irascible and witty and, above all, direct.

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