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by George Orwell

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I am trying to decide which George Orwell novel next, finished Keep the aspidistra flying and I have 1984 three four times, animal farm, down and out in Paris and London........ Burmese days? The Road to Mandalay? Homage to Catalonia? Coming up for air? So glad this guy wrote so many books...................................................................................
Doug Keep the Aspidistra Flying and Down and Out are very similar except that Aspidistra is "fiction" with an obvious author avatar as the protagonist (muc…moreKeep the Aspidistra Flying and Down and Out are very similar except that Aspidistra is "fiction" with an obvious author avatar as the protagonist (much like Burmese Days, or 1984 , for that matter), whereas D&O is autobiographical. Both stories focus on the physical and psychological struggles of the impoverished. Catalonia is Orwell's (inevitable for his generation) Spanish Civil War Book. It's no For Whom the Bell Tolls, but in it, you see the beginnings of Orwell's disillusionment with 20th century socialism. Of the books you have not read yet, I liked Down & Out the most. The best Orwell of all is not even a book. It is an essay called "Politics and the English Language." If you have not read that yet, you should do so. It will tell you nothing you have not thought of before, but will crystallize those thoughts in an extraordinary way. (less)
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please Im working on a essay and I want to know the background of flory and his corrupt life?
Jane Szepesi Try reading the book -it is good, and not long!
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