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Solnit, Rebecca.
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Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Knowledge and learning.
Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Themes, motives.
Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Homes and haunts.
Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Solnit, Rebecca.
Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Knowledge and learning.
Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Themes, motives.
Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Homes and haunts.
Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Orwell
's roses / Rebecca Solnit.
by
Solnit, Rebecca.
Viking, 2021.
Call #:
828.91209 O79s
Subjects
Orwell
,
George
,
1903-1950
.
Orwell
,
George
,
1903-1950
--
Knowledge and learning.
Orwell
,
George
,
1903-1950
--
Themes
,
motives
.
Orwell
,
George
,
1903-1950
--
Homes and haunts.
Orwell
,
George
,
1903-1950
--
Criticism and interpretation.
Novelists, English
--
20th century
--
Biography.
Authors, English
--
20th century
--
Biography.
Journalists
--
Great Britain
--
Biography.
ISBN:
9780593083369 (hc.)
Description:
308 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-294) and index.
Summary:
"A fresh take on
George
Orwell
as a far more nature-loving figure than is often portrayed, and a dazzlingly rich meditation on roses, gardens, and the value and use of beauty and pleasure in the face of brutality and horror. 'In the spring of 1936 a man planted roses.' That man was
George
Orwell
, shortly before he went off to fight against fascism in Spain. Today, those rosebushes are still thriving. This is the starting point for Rebecca Solnit's new book, which presents another side of
Orwell
, a neglected arcadian
Orwell
who took enormous pleasure in the natural world and found great meaning and value in it.
Orwell
's planting of the roses is an axle from which Solnit's chapters radiate out like spokes as she brilliantly explores its various contexts, perspectives, and meanings, following the contours of
Orwell
's life and tracking how deeply enmeshed the love of nature is in all his writing. Journeying to the cottage in Wallingford where
Orwell
lived in 1936, she examines his desire to be agrarian and settled, how gardening restored him, and how planting something can be an act of fidelity and faith..."--From publisher.
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