George Orwell
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Essays by the author of 1984 on topics from remembrances of working in a bookshop [to] recollections of fighting in the Spanish Civil War (Publishers Weekly). 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...