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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This short book of essays kept me company in an airport and on an airplane. The essays were enjoyable and for the most part short. I most enjoyed is comments on Jonathan Swifts Gulliver’s Travels. This was flowed closely by “A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray”. All were entertaining and this series of Great Ideas makes for enjoyable, albeit brief reads. Orwell does well as an essayist sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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In this collection of eight witty and sharply written essays, Orwell looks at, among others, the joys of spring (even in London), the picture of humanity painted by Gulliver and his travels, and the strange benefit of the doubt that the public permit Salvador Dali. Also included here are a mouth-watering essay on the delights of English Cooking and a shocking account of killing an elephant in Burma. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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While all eight are fairly short, this brevity makes apparent Orwell's wonderful gift of concision – something I hadn't fully appreciated when reading his longer works; there are none of the rambling digressions common to essayists of a lower calibre. Another beautiful edition in the Penguin Great Ideas series, this small volume would make the perfect afternoon read for one looking for something intelligent yet not too cognitively taxing.