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1 posted on 08/20/2025 9:56:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Here is his best nonfiction:

A Nice Cup of Tea

Shooting an Elephant

A Hanging

And there's this:


Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool

2 posted on 08/20/2025 9:57:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Read em’ all. Down and out was all about being down and out-how the Russian triumphantly shared the loaf of bread he was able to get ahold of. Made me wonder how women managed to get by.


3 posted on 08/20/2025 9:59:46 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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Animal Farm


4 posted on 08/20/2025 10:04:06 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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5 posted on 08/20/2025 10:19:06 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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The Road to Wigan Pier

Where he tries so very hard to be honest and gets shot down by his own party.

6 posted on 08/20/2025 10:26:32 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: nickcarraway; MacNaughton

If Orwell’s novel 1984 is one of your favourites I can recommend Anthony Burgess’s novel “1985”. It consists of two parts. The first is an analysis of “1984” and the second is a short novel set in 1985, seven years ahead of the time it was written. Certain aspects are more reminiscent of the world of today compared to “1984”; islamisation and wokeism. Others like the power of the trade unions are not so. Burgess did not foresee the election of Mrs Thatcher!

Still a good read.


13 posted on 08/20/2025 11:43:27 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: nickcarraway

Thanks for posting!! :D


16 posted on 08/21/2025 12:39:22 AM PDT by Scarlett156 (Remember to pray. )
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I like his Six Rules for Writing and try to follow them at all times! https://infusion.media/blog/george-orwells-six-rules-for-writing/


17 posted on 08/21/2025 3:16:20 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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Worth investigation: The time Orwell spent in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War where he was befriended by an American diplomat who may have paid the cost of a return trip to England.


20 posted on 08/21/2025 5:39:29 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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