Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
A Nonfiction, History, Writing book. Twenty or twenty-five years ago, contraception and enlightenment were held to be almost synonymous. George...
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 reflectedas it was for Yeats to versify or Dickens to invent."Facing Unpleasant Facts charts Orwell's development as a master of the narrative-essay form and unites classics such as "Shooting an Elephant" with lesser-known journalism and passages from his wartime diary. 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.Contents:The SpikeClinkA HangingShooting an ElephantBookshop MemoriesMarrakechMy Country Right or LeftWar-time DiaryEngland Your EnglandDear Doktor Goebbels - Your British Friends Are Feeding Fine!Looking Back on the Spanish WarAs I Please, 1As I Please, 2As I Please, 3As I Please, 16Revenge Is SourThe Case for the Open FireThe Sporting SpiritIn Defence of English CookingA...
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Twenty or twenty-five years ago, contraception and enlightenment were held to be almost synonymous. George Orwell, Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays As far as the mass of the people go, the extraordinary swings of opinion which occur nowadays, the emotions which can be turned on and off like a tap, are the result of newspaper and radio hypnosis. George Orwell, Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyones thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a case with deliberate suppression of his opponents point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends. George Orwell, Facing Unpleasant Facts: 1937-1939
Orwell, George. FACING UNPLEASANT FACTS: Narrative Essays. (2008). *****. This collection was compiled from The Complete Works of George Orwell published in 1998 and edited by Peter Davison. Orwell (pseudonym of Eric A. Blair) was a prodigious writer, and his essays appeared in all the leading journals and newspapers of the time. The... I have mixed feelings about Orwell. They mix between fanboyish and worshipful. This selection provides a mix of high-quality essays reflecting the attribute of Eric Blair I most admire--his ability to survive. Among other unpleasantries, he faced Catholic school, being hated by large numbers of Burmese people, and being shot during... I was not familiar with Orwell's life or writing career when I found this book at library. I found him to be a highly skilled writer who could tell it like it is. It was very interesting to read his thoughts and commentaries in his life in the 30's and 40's in England. Much is still the same, though we don't have writers that tell us...
