George Orwell: Essays | 
pickI have been listening to this huge essay collection over the last several weeks and I have loved the experience. They are well written and so thought provoking. A excellent reflection on history but surprisingly applicable to our current times. 🤔
Orwell‘s 1946 essay is about a place that, annoyingly for all concerned, doesn‘t actually exist. His dream pub is, however, described down to the finest detail.
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Orwell on Yeats: “To begin with, in a single phrase, ‘great wealth in a few mens‘ hands‘, Yeats lays bare the central reality of Fascism, which the whole of its propaganda is designed to cover up.”
was delighted to find out that George Orwell wrote an essay on Henry Miller. I read Down & Out last year and it reminded me a great deal of Tropic of Cancer (which was published a year later, actually). this is how you do a scathing semicolon: “But he himself seems to me a man of one book. Sooner or later I should expect him to descend into unintelligibility, or into charlatanism; there are signs of both in his later work.”
pickA delightful collection of Essays written by George Orwell. They are as fresh and insightful today as they were when they were written in the 1930s and 1940s. Covering his ideas politics, literature and culture, with humour and wit.
pickMost interesting for its written aspect; Orwell's way around words is beautiful and to the point (as with an essay discussing the issues with flippant, indecisive writing). He's often hypocritical, but well aware of this, calling himself out on most instances of it. Well worth reading for even modern comparisons of society and politics.
