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A review by owlette
A Collection of Essays by George Orwell
3.0
Underwhelmed.
It might be because I just didn’t enjoy the choice of selections. The classics—“Politics and the English Language” and “Shooting an Elephant”—are timeless and deserve to be included. I quite liked the pairing of “Such, Such Were the Joys” and “Charles Dickens.” But “Charles Dickens” is the only literary review piece of the three in this collection that I read because of my familiarity with the titular author's work. I never have and probably never will read Henry Miller or Rudyard Kipling. And then there were pieces like “The Art of Donald McGill” whose topics are too contemporaneous to be enjoyed by modern readers.
It might be because I just didn’t enjoy the choice of selections. The classics—“Politics and the English Language” and “Shooting an Elephant”—are timeless and deserve to be included. I quite liked the pairing of “Such, Such Were the Joys” and “Charles Dickens.” But “Charles Dickens” is the only literary review piece of the three in this collection that I read because of my familiarity with the titular author's work. I never have and probably never will read Henry Miller or Rudyard Kipling. And then there were pieces like “The Art of Donald McGill” whose topics are too contemporaneous to be enjoyed by modern readers.