George Orwell is the author of six novels and three works of nonfiction. His novels Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949) were met with great acclaim and are still widely read and studied. His work was very political, an emphasis that is clearly present in "Politics and the English Language."
There are many essays and works of nonfiction that focus on the state of the English language at a certain time. Some of these include David Foster Wallace's "Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars Over Usage" (2001) about prescriptivist and descriptivist views of English usage, and chapters from Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987),which explores bilingual...
