Facing Unpleasant Facts Narrative Essays

Book Description

New York Harcourt, Inc. 2008 Hardcover First edition NEW 308 pp. Octavo. Cream over blue boards. Green spine on dust jacket. George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist. From his earliest published article in 1928 to his untimely death in 1950, he produced an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected - and illuminated - the fraught times in which he lived and wrote. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George Packer in his foreword to this new two-volume collection, "it was as natural for Orwell to propose, generalize, qualify, argue, judge - in short, to think - as it was for Yeats to versify or Dickens to invent."

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