Keep the Aspidistra flying & The Road to Wigan Pier Combo set of 2 Books【電子書籍】[ George Orwell ]

＜p＞This book is a 2-in-1 combo of Keep the Aspidistra flying and The Road to Wigan Pier by the world renowned author George Orwell.＜br /＞ George Orwell is one of the world’s most influential writers, the visionary author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four and non-fiction classics Down and Out in Paris in London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.＜br /＞ George Orwell was born Eric Blair in India in 1903 into a comfortable ‘lower-upper-middle class’ family. Orwell’s father had served the British Empire, and Orwell’s own first job was as a policeman in Burma. Orwell wrote in “Shooting an Elephant” (1936) that his time in the police force had shown him the “dirty work of Empire at close quarters”; the experience made him a lifelong foe of imperialism.＜br /＞ By the time of his death in 1950, he was world-renowned as a journalist and author: for his eyewitness reporting on war (shot in the neck in Spain) and poverty (tramping in London, washing dishes in Paris or visiting p．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る