Orwell’s writing, and his understanding of it, reflected his political beliefs. He had a five-year stint with the Burma Division of the Indian Imperial Police, but eft with a medical certificate because his health was ruined, he dabbled in writing and a somewhat itinerant life and married, but then joined the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. That experience shaped the rest of his life, his politics, and the books and essays he wrote. He became a democratic socialist, but he was opposed to totalitarianism in all its form, both right and left.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Dancing Priest.
Some Wednesday Readings
Secession on the Ballot This Week…Almost – Neil Chatelain at Emerging Civil War.
Review: The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913 by John Hopkins – Civil War Books and Authors. (You can read my review here.)
‘The Changelings,’ poem by Rudyard Kipling – Adam Roberts at Poems Ancient and Modern.
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