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Orwell’s essay on P G Wodehouse

Com­ing back to George Orwell after fin­ish­ing 1984, I skimmed through his essay on ‘In defence of PG Wode­house’ because I am an ardent fan of Wodehouse’s writ­ing. Again, a ter­rific and insight­ful read. I didn’t know the details of whole Nazi’s chap­ter and infa­mous Ger­man broad­casts given by Wode­house dur­ing his intern­ment camp. The [...]
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Orwell’s writing

Barely 1/5th into ‘1984’, I cant help dis­cern­ing a fine indi­vid­u­al­is­tic touch of the author in the impact it suc­ceeds in gen­er­at­ing. Eric Arthur Blair aka George Orwell needs no intro­duc­tion. What makes a piece engag­ing is often the views pre­sented behind the scenes (apart from the magic that authors like Wode­house can cre­ate by [...]
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