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ORWELL ON ORWELL AND WRITING

LETTER TO DENNIS COLLINGS, OCTOBER 1931:

I am getting stories etc. to do for the new paper Modern Youth. (A poisonous name for a poisonous paper—& the things I write for them are also poisonous, but one must live.)¹

LETTER TO ELEANOR JAQUES, 19 OCTOBER 1932, ON BURMESE DAYS:

My novel is making just a little progress. I see now more or less what will have to be done to it when the rough draft is finished, but the longness & complicatedness are terrible.²

LETTER TO BRENDA SALKELD, SPRING 1933:

[W]ith me almost any piece of writing has to be done over and over again. I wish I were one of those people who can sit down and fling off a novel in about four days. … Have you read [James Joyce's] Ulysses yet? It sums up better than any book I know the fearful despair that is almost normal in modern times. You get the same kind of thing, though only just touched upon,...

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1. Introduction
2. About George Orwell
3. Orwell At Work
4. Orwell's Era
5. Orwell's Works
6. Orwell On Orwell And Writing
7. Orwell As Studied
8. Copyright

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