Some Thoughts on the Common Toad: George Orwell (Penguin Great Ideas) - Softcover

Orwell, George

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ISBN 10: 0141191279 ISBN 13: 9780141191270

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2010

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In this collection of eight witty and sharply written essays, Orwell looks at, among others, the joys of spring (even in London), the picture of humanity painted by Gulliver and his travels, and the strange benefit of the doubt that the public permit Salvador Dali. Also included here are a mouth-watering essay on the delights of English Cooking and a shocking account of killing an elephant in Burma.

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Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.

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Features essays that look at the joys of spring, the picture of humanity and more.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0141191279
• ISBN 13: 9780141191270
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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