Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

by George Orwell

Book Overview

George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected--and illuminated--the fraught times in which he lived. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George Packer in his foreword, "it was as natural for Orwell to propose, generalize, qualify, argue, judge--in short, to think--as it was for Yeats to versify or Dickens to invent."

Facing Unpleasant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0156033135
• ISBN13: 9780156033138
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.9"