Orwell’s honesty, courage, and sense of decency are inextricably bound up with the quasi-colloquial style that imbues his work with its extraordinary power. He focusses on the sense of profound injustice, incipient violence, and malign betrayal that were ubiquitous in Europe in the 1930s. Orwell’s subjects in Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier are the political and social upheavals of his time. Both the books in this volume were published in the 1930s, “a low, dishonest decade,” as his coeval W.H. He was a would-be revolutionary who went to Eton, a political writer who abhorred dogma, a socialist who thrived on his image as a loner, and a member of the Imperial Indian Police who chronicled the iniquities of imperialism. George Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. With an Introduction by Dr Sally Minogue and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa
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