Activity

Orwell was suspicious of this indeterminate, petit bourgeois class, because it wanted to change itself first, and society second.

he was greatly talented at describing closed worlds, and adumbrating their conventions

he seems, self-abnegatingly, to want to taste the sweat on the meat, as a salty political reminder.

the old bucolic town of Lower Binfield has unattractively expanded after the First World War and has 'spread like gravy over a tablecloth'.

His nicely pugilistic essay on Tolstoy's hatred of King Lear