· In George Orwell: English Rebel, a book that is part biography, part literary criticism, Robert Colls evaluates his subject through the lens of Orwell’s “Englishness.” It is a fresh approach for discussing a man who has had many books written about him, but not much addressing his relationship with his country and national identity/5. · George Orwell: English Rebel takes us on a journey through the many twists and turns of Orwell's life and thought, from the precocious public school satirist at Eton and the imperial policeman in Burma, through his early years as a rather dour documentary writer, down and out on the streets of Paris and London and on the road to Wigan pier, to his formative experiences as a volunteer soldier in Author: Robert Colls. · George Orwell. English Rebel. Robert Colls. Description. An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in God, a fierce opponent of nationalism who defined Englishness for a generation.
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George Orwell. English Rebel takes us on a journey through the many twists and turns of Orwell's life and thought, from the precocious public school satirist at Eton and the imperial policeman in Burma, through his early years as a rather dour documentary writer, down and out on the streets of Paris and London and on the road to Wigan pier, o his formative experiences as a volunteer soldier in the Spanish Civil War. A great strength of George Orwell: English Rebel is its tracing of Orwell’s discovery (which seems to recur among every generation of English speaking liberals) that there were some extremely poor people in England, that anarchists in Spain were charismatic when they were not torching churches, and that Stalinists tended to kill anarchists who were trying to foment revolution in such a resource-draining manner that the fascists won the war. Colls writes, “Orwell’s great reconciliation. Rob Colls has taken on the man's Englishness, his personality, warts and all, and the elusive notion that he was a rebel in his own land. It's full of zesty prose, fine insights, and a freshness of interpretation which made it a pleasure to read. It's a major achievement and a major work on George Orwell.".
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