{"product_id":"9781851246021","title":"Politics and the English Language","description":"Author: George Orwell\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781851246021\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bodleian Library Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Dec 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 64\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Orwell\u0026amp;#x27;s essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. It is about the importance of writing concisely, clearly and precisely and the dangers to our ability to think when language, especially political language, is obscured by vague, cliched phrases and hackneyed metaphors. In it, he argues that when political discourse trades clarity and precision for stock phrases, the debasement of politics follows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in \u003ci\u003eHorizon \u003c\/i\u003ein 1946, Orwell\u0026amp;#x27;s essay was soon recognised as an important text, circulated by newspaper editors to their journalists and reprinted in magazines and anthologies of contemporary writing. It continues to be relevant to our own age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;To read a speech by a contemporary politician, an article in a broadsheet newspaper or a communication from a government department is to be plunged straightaway into a landscape where the euphemisms, wool-pulling and downright duplicity that Orwell complained about back in 1946 are all going strong.\u0026amp;#x27; - D.J. Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46857123102878,"sku":"ADS-9781851246021","price":19.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781851246021.jpg?v=1779155223","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781851246021","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}