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Facing Unpleasant Facts
Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays | George Orwell
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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.
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McFarchie
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#20thingsaboutme
1. I am married.
2. I have a 10yo daughter.
3. I live in the seaside town of Dromana.
4. I have 2 dogs and 2 cats.
5. Being a Business Analyst pays the bills.
6. Being a writer doesn't!
7. My right arm is dedicated to bookish tattoos.
8. My left to writing tattoos.
9. I am an empath.
10. I mainly read from a kindle.
11. I rarely watch TV but GoT and House of Cards are my exception.
12. I'm addicted to ice cream.
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McFarchie 13. I am a social justice junkie. 14. I choose Mac over PC. 15. I suffer from depression and anxiety. 16. I don't drink. 17. I do some of my best writing stoned. 18. I have been to Bali 10 times. 19. I am socially awkward. 20. I have an extremely addictive personality. 7y
monkeygirlsmama Your cat looks super sweet. 😍 7y
EchoLogical Also socially awkward 🙋 7y
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cobwebmoth 9, 15, 19, me too. 7y
heikemarie What a sweet kitty 🐱 7y
saresmoore "Write drunk; edit sober." -Hemingway Pretty fascinating about the tattoos—in spiritual mythos, the right side represents the earthly and the left side represents the transcendent. 7y
McFarchie @saresmoore did you know I had that tattoo or was it an outstanding guess? 👏🏾 7y
Izai.Amorim Another Mac person here since 1990! 7y
CoffeeCatsBooks Adorable kitty w/ that pink nose! 😻 7y
AceOnRoam Dromana! Lovely.. 7y
saresmoore @McFarchie Ha! I didn't know. Great idea for a tattoo, though! 7y
[DELETED] 206653737 Adorable kitty cat! 😻 7y
minkyb Bali 10 times makes me happy to contemplate! 7y
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