![]() ![]() The book works at it’s best when he’s writing about personal experience which gives him an opportunity to use his keen observation and description to great effect. It’s dry and I’ve always found old money slightly confusing, but it’s interesting to see reading weighed up against other pursuits and Orwell observes that it is not just cost that can be blamed. ![]() ![]() The title piece sees Orwell thinking about how much cash he spends on books and why reading had fallen out of favour. This book contains a handful of articles that he wrote which cover a range of topics including his experiences in school and a French hospital, the threat to freedom of speech and books. This is the third nonfiction Orwell book I’ve read (after Homage to Catalonia and Down and Out in Paris and London) and I definitely prefer them to his fiction. ![]()
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