One striking fact about English literature during the present century is the extent to which it has been dominated by foreigners—for example, Conrad, Henry James, Shaw, Joyce, Ye...

Winston was gelatinous with fatigue. Gelatinous was the right word. It had come into his head spontaneously. His body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly, but its translucen...

The chestnut tree was almost empty. A r… Winston sat in his usual corner, gazing… Winston was listening to the telescreen.… A violent emotion, not fear exactly but… He never named them, even in his thought…

In the low-ceilinged canteen, deep underground, the lunch queue jerked slowly forward. The room was already very full and deafeningly noisy. From the grille at the counter the steam of ...

It was a pity that Mr. Eliot should be so much on the defensive in the long essay with which he prefaces this selection of Kipling’s poetry1, but it was not to be avoided, becaus...

The Italian soldier shook my hand Beside the guard—room table; The strong hand and the subtle hand Whose palms are only able To meet within the sounds of guns,

He was lying on something that felt like a camp bed, except that it was higher off the ground and that he was fixed down in some way so that he could not move. Light that seemed stronge...

Mark Twain has crashed the lofty gates of the Everyman library, but only with Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, already fairly well known under the guise of ‘children’s books’ (which the...

With the deep, unconscious sigh which no… In the walls of the cubicle there were t… Winston examined the four slips of paper… times 17.3.84 bb speech malreported afri… times 19.12.83 forecasts 3 yp 4th quarte…