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Puritan Board Doctor
Yesterday (1/21) was the 60th anniversary of Orwell's death - of tuberculosis at the age of 46. He is best known, of course, as the author of the novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. But, he was also a first-class essayist who is considered to be one of the more important writers of the first half of the 20th century.
If you're interested in Orwell at all, I'd encourage you to acquire George Orwell: Essays, published in 2002 as part of Alfred A. Knopf's "Everyman's Library" series. It's 1,363 pages of Orwell's essays and journalism.
A small "s" socialist himself, he had a clear eye about the true nature of both Nazism and the Soviet Union. He was one of the few intellectuals of his day who was not fooled by Communism, as opposed to someone like George Bernard Shaw, for instance.
In any case, politics aside, he was a writer of clarity and power, and I enjoy reading him very much.
If you're interested in Orwell at all, I'd encourage you to acquire George Orwell: Essays, published in 2002 as part of Alfred A. Knopf's "Everyman's Library" series. It's 1,363 pages of Orwell's essays and journalism.
A small "s" socialist himself, he had a clear eye about the true nature of both Nazism and the Soviet Union. He was one of the few intellectuals of his day who was not fooled by Communism, as opposed to someone like George Bernard Shaw, for instance.
In any case, politics aside, he was a writer of clarity and power, and I enjoy reading him very much.