An Age Like This: 1920-1940
A British Literature, Classics, History book. Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution George Orwell, An Age Like This: 1920-1940 //
George Orwell is a major figure in twentieth-century literature. The author of Down and Out in Paris and London, Nineteen Eighty-four, and Animal Farm, he published ten books and two collections of essays during his lifetime -- but in terms of actual words, produced much more than seems possible for someone who died at the age of forty-six and was often struggling against poverty and ill health. His essays, letters, and journalism are among the most memorable, lucid, and intelligent ever...
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution George Orwell, An Age Like This: 1920-1940 //
This one contains rather more letters than the later volumes. Provides some interesting insights.Into Orwell for one. His unthinking biases, including his assumption that Socialism is the only right way -- oddly enough while commenting on how government inspectors who refused to let farmers hire hop pickers without providing "proper... I'm torn about what rating to give it, because while the first 3/4 of the book was interesting to me, it wasn't really good, whereas in the last few long essays he clearly found a form which really, really suited him. In the end I decided on four stars, both because I got a lot of pleasure from his early book reviews and letters and... If George Orwell had died just a few years earlier, his biggest claims to fame, Animal Farm and 1984, would never have been written. In this parallel universe, he would have been remembered (if at all) for his non-fiction.Orwell wrote a number of earlier novels, but none of them has ever set the world alight. However, many readers have...
