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George Orwell: Such, Such Were The Joys

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Such, Such Were The Joys, the essay of George Orwell. First published: September-October 1952 by/in Partisan Review, GB, London

George Orwell: Such, Such Were The Joys Index > Library > Essays > Joys > English > E-text George Orwell Such, Such Were The Joys I Soon after I arrived at St Cyprian's (not immediately, but after a week or two, just when I seemed to be settling into the routine of school life) I began wetting my bed. I was now aged eight, so that this was a reversion to a habit which I must have grown out of at least four years earlier. Nowadays, I believe, bed-wetting in such circumstances is taken for granted. It is normal reaction in children who have been removed from their homes to a strange place. In th

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