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"Reflections on Gandhi" is an essay by George Orwell, first published in 1949, which responds to Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth. The essay, which appeared in the American magazine Partisan Review, discusses the autobiography and offers both praise and criticism to Gandhi, focusing in particular on the effectiveness of Gandhian nonviolence and the tension between Gandhi's spiritual worldview and his political activities. One of a number of essays written by Orwell and published between Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), "Reflections on Gandhi" was the last of Orwell's essays to be published in his lifetime and was not republished until after his death.
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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Hiebert, Matt. "In Canada and Abroad: The Diverse Publishing Career of George Woodcock". Archived 2013-08-19 at archive.today Retrieved 19 August 2013.
- ↑ "George Woodcock: A Biography" Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 19 August 2013.
- ↑ "The Works of George Woodcock" Retrieved 19 August 2013.
- 1 2 Orwell, Sonia and Angus, Ian (eds.) The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 2: My Country Right or Left, pp. 257–258 (London, Penguin)
- ↑ Colin Ward with David Goodway, Talking Anarchy. PM Press, 2014 ISBN 1604868120 (p.42).
- 1 2 Orwell, Sonia and Angus, Ian (eds.) The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 2: My Country Right or Left, pp. 211–212 (London, Penguin)
- ↑ Woodcock, George (1966). The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell. Little, Brown. pp. 27–28.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Advertisement for "NOW", Horizon, November 1941 (p.296).
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Advertisement for "NOW", Horizon , June 1941 (p.372).
- ↑ Woodcock, George "Elegy for an Anarchist" in LRB Vol. 6 No. 1. 19 January 1984, pages 20-22 London Review of Books . Retrieved 19 August 2013.