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Orwell did not think highly of his own work. He described it as "silly" and "propaganda", and refused to allow it to be reprinted.
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A dissenting opinion is that Orwell often tended to disparage his works, regardless of critical praise.
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Orwell: I Have Tried to Tell the Truth, p. 199, Secker& Warburg, 2001
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Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels
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Orwell to the Present: Literature in England, 1945–2000
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Index

essay
George Orwell
Ministry of Information
Edward Ardizzone
Dame Laura Knight
L. S. Lowry
Henry Moore
John Minton
Feliks Topolski
World War II


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George Orwell
Bibliography
Burmese Days
A Clergyman's Daughter
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Coming Up for Air
Animal Farm
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Down and Out in Paris and London

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