Facing Unpleasant Facts 1937-1939 - Softcover
Volume 11 from The Complete Works of George Orwell
The most important document that has come to light regarding Orwell's Spanish experiences is the deposition charging him and Eileen with espionage and high treason, a charge unknown to them. This is fully analyzed and can now be read in the context of the disputes that then divided the Left, well illustrated by the letters and documents printed here, notably his bitter response to Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War. This volume also includes a sequence of letters that throws a completely new light on Orwell's personal relationships.
The most important document that has come to light regarding Orwell's Spanish experiences is the deposition charging him and Eileen with espionage and high treason, a charge unknown to them. This is fully analyzed and can now be read in the context of the disputes that then divided the Left, well illustrated by the letters and documents printed here, notably his bitter response to Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War. This volume also includes a sequence of letters that throws a completely new light on Orwell's personal relationships.
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HMH Hardcover, 2008, Previous ISBN: 978-0-15-101361-6
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The essential collection of narrative essays from a 20th century master
George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected--and illuminated--the fraught times in which he lived. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George Packer in his foreword, "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."
Facing Unpleasant Facts charts Orwell's development as a master of the narrative-essay form and unites such classics 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 essays weave together the personal and the political in an unmistakable style that is at once plainspoken and brilliantly complex.
"Reaffirm[s] the author's status as one of the definitive essayists in English literature."--Los Angeles Times
GEORGE ORWELL (1903 1950) served with the Imperial Police in Burma, fought with the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, and was a member of the Home Guard and a writer for the BBC during World War II. He is the author of many works of nonfiction and fiction.
GEORGE PACKERis a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq and other works. He lives in Brooklyn.
Also in this series: All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
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- PublisherSecker & Warburg
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0436205386
- ISBN 13 9780436205385
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages528
- EditorDavison Peter
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