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Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
| Author: | George Orwell George Packer |
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Houghton Mifflin, 2008 |
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| Book Type: | Non-Fiction |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
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 as 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 Spike
- Clink
- A Hanging
- Shooting an Elephant
- Bookshop Memories
- Marrakech
- My Country Right or Left
- War-time Diary
- England Your England
- Dear Doktor Goebbels - Your British Friends Are Feeding Fine!
- Looking Back on the Spanish War
- As I Please, 1
- As I Please, 2
- As I Please, 3
- As I Please, 16
- Revenge Is Sour
- The Case for the Open Fire
- The Sporting Spirit
- In Defence of English Cooking
- A Nice Cup of Tea
- The Moon Under Water
- In Front of Your Nose
- Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
- A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray
- Why I Write
- How the Poor Die
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