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Any good? I've only read "1984" and "Animal Farm" and never thought about whether he'd written anything else.

Jay Orwell himself dismissed this novel, but I found it very enjoyable. Orwell wrote his best when he wrote with a political purpose and this book can be …moreOrwell himself dismissed this novel, but I found it very enjoyable. Orwell wrote his best when he wrote with a political purpose and this book can be thought of as socialist propaganda. I found it to be a very engaging account of poverty and homelessness and the exploitation of the poor. Just as Orwell was the beacon that guided western thought through the cold war and illuminated the dark abyss of authoritarianism and Stalinist thuggery. This novel is important now in an age of capitalist excess. I thought Dorathy's adventures as a teacher in a parsimonious school for profit instructive in our current school choice profiteering ethos. The chapter about spending the night in Trafalgar Square written as a play within the novel was inventive, rather like Joyce or Becket and the last chapter when Dorothy struggled with her loss of faith was very moving and profound and Job-like and like Job she returns to the status quo ante profoundly altered by the experience.(less)

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