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Some Thoughts on the Common Toad

George Orwell

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English
Penguin Classics
13 September 2010
'Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful'

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.

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Imprint:   Penguin Classics
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 181mm,  Width: 111mm,  Spine: 8mm
Weight:   82g
ISBN:   9780141191270
ISBN 10:   0141191279
Series:   Penguin Great Ideas
Pages:   128
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in 1903 in India and was schooled at Eton. From 1922 to 1927 he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, which provided inspiration for his first novel, Burmese Days. He went on to become a journalist, working for the BBC, Tribune, the Observer and the Manchester Evening News. He is best known for his two novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. He died in 1950.

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