Facing Unpleasant Facts

Narrative Essays

Orwell George Orwell & Packer George Packer

The first of two volumes honoring the author's mastery of the essay form brings together such classic works as "Shooting an Elephant" with passages from his wartime diary and lesser-known journalistic pieces that weave together the personal and political in studies of his boyhood in an English boarding school and his experiences during the Spanish Civil War

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Beschrijving Facing Unpleasant Facts

Whether detailing the horrors of Orwell's boyhood in an English boarding school or bringing to life the sights, sounds, and smells of the Spanish Civil War, these narrative essays weave together the personal and the political in an unmistakable style that is at once plainspoken and brilliantly complex.

ISBN: 9780156033138
Pagina's: 336
Verschenen: 01-01-2009
NUR: 309

Druk: 1
Uitvoering: Paperback / softback
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: HMH Books

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