flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

George Orwell: Why I Write

orwell.ru · 2,953 words · saved by 1 readers

Why I Write, the essay of George Orwell. First published: summer 1946 by/in Gangrel, GB, London

George Orwell: Why I Write Index > Library > Essays > Wiw > English > E-text George Orwell Why I Write [d] From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books. I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was s

Explore this link on the map →

related reading