Just saw this, starting from August 9th
They are running his work daily ala a blog format, good idea and a real chance to read a different George.
One quote of his whilst in Gibratar in '38
'Overheard local English resident: “It’s coming right enough. Hitler’s going to have Czecho-Slovakia all right. If he doesn’t get it now he’ll go on and on till he does. Better let him have it at once. We shall be ready by 1941.”'
One of the most underrated of his novels is Coming up for Air, a almost Proustian meditation of the loss of innocence post 1918 and the decline into the total war promised by Fascism's weltanschuuang. The protagonist traces how the world seems leaping into madness. We can see how much these nightmares affected Orwell himself.
(Hat Tip - HP)
ps. Let us not forget his visceral hatred of Elephants, mind.
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