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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Solnit, Rebecca.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Solnit, Rebecca.       by title:      Orwell's roses / Reb...       by call number:      828.91209 O79s     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Nonfiction 828.91209 O79s Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 828.91209 O79s Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 828.91209 O79s Core Collection - Adult Checked out Jul 12, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction 828.91209 O79s Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList

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