![]() ![]() Subtitled ‘Socialism and the English Genius’, this is an essay Orwell wrote about Britain in the wake of the outbreak of the Second World War. Recommended edition: Coming Up for Air (Penguin Modern Classics) Although it’s a lighter work, this nostalgic novel still addresses some important social and political themes, notably the effects that capitalism and speculative building were having on rural and semi-rural Britain. ![]() The novel follows middle-aged George Bowling as he revisits his boyhood town and discovers how much everything has changed. Recommended edition: Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics)Īnother early, lighter novel, Coming up for Air was published in June 1939, just three months before the outbreak of the Second World War. He was shot in the throat and was lucky to survive – and wrote this memoir of his time in Spain during this particularly bloody period of its history. But once he was amongst the fighting, Orwell considered it his duty to join the left-leaning Republicans in their fight against Franco’s fascists, and he ended up enlisting as a soldier. When civil war between the Republicans and Nationalists broke out in Spain in 1936, Orwell travelled out there, like many left-wing intellectuals (the poet W. ![]()
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