Orwell's Pleasures
$32.22
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2027
Summary
In the winter of 1945-6, George Orwell was recently widowed, in poor health and living in bombed-out London under the deprivations of rationing – yet in this unpromising context, he wrote a series of essays celebrating the small joys of everyday life. This new anthology, edited by Rebecca Solnit, challenges the dominant image of Orwell as the austere author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. He instead emerges as an enthusiast of English cooking; a lover of gardening a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241727140 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241727146 |
| Author: | George Orwell, Rebecca Solnit |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 132mm x 204mm |
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George Orwell
George Orwell (Author)
Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.
Rebecca Solnit (External Editor)
Writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster. Her recent works include Men Explain Things to Me, No Straight Road Takes You There and Orwell’s Roses.
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