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Dæmon Voices #review and my #reading in November

Posted by | Published on November 25, 2017

Philip Pullman’s Dæmon Voices – Essays on Storytelling is pleasurable reading for English teachers, students, writers and anyone who loves stories. Best known for the […] 

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La Belle Sauvage #BookofDust #review and my #reading in October

Posted by | Published on October 29, 2017

“But the meaning of a book is never just what the author thinks it is. It’s a great mistake to rely on the author to […] 

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#Churchill and #Orwell: The Fight for Freedom #review and my #reading in June  →

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“The Struggle to see things as they are is perhaps the fundamental driver of Western civilisation. There is a long direct line from Aristotle and Archimedes to Locke, Hume, Mill, […] 

Orwell’s typewriter  →

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“I am just on the grisly job of typing out my novel. I can’t type much because it tires me too much to sit up at table, and I asked […] 

Orwell in Paris: War Correspondent*  →

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Wearing the uniform of a British officer, George Orwell returned to Paris in February 1945 as a war correspondent for The Observer and Manchester Evening News. He had resigned as […] 

Orwell in Paris: Aunt Nellie  →

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George Orwell aka Eric Blair (1903-1950) died seventy years ago today, on the 21st January 1950. His favourite aunt, Nellie Limouzin (1870-1950), passed away five months later in tragically sad […] 

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