![]() ![]() He warned against the mistaken belief that modern reason would inevitably prevail over the absurdity and irrationality of fascism. ![]() In those essays, he did not treat fascism as some special province of the Germans or Nazism rather he argued people should search for the “fascist streak” within themselves and their own society. ![]() His essays against fascism and the British Tories offering apologetics for fascism in the 1930s should be required reading alongside his classic works of fiction, 1984 and Animal Farm. “I was all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors, the British.” Orwell’s military days in Burma taught him the human atrocity of the British Empire: “I had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing,” Orwell reflected in his essay, Shooting an Elephant. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)Įric Blair, pen name George Orwell, was not perfect as a person, but then, who is? Nevertheless, Orwell got the three major issues of the 20th Century right: He was anti-imperialist, anti-fascist and anti-Communist/anti-Stalinist. A Ukrainian demonstrator protests in London, England against the recent invasion of Ukraine. ![]()
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He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. ![]() ![]() ![]() This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. 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