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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