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A Kind of Compulsion: 1903-1936 (Complete Orwell)

A Kind of Compulsion: 1903-1936 (Complete Orwell)
By George Orwell

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This collection includes letters, articles, and essays beginning with Orwell's letters home from prep school, and the stories, poems, and contributions to college publications he wrote at Eton.


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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #3820882 in Books
  • Published on: 1999-07-01
  • Released on: 1999-09-07
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 672 pages

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Volume 10 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

This volume begins with Orwell's illustrated letters home from prep school and the stories, poems and contributions to college publications he wrote at Eton. Then there are his articles and essays on poverty, censorship and imperialist exploitation first published in Paris in 1928-29, his early reviews, his first important essay, "A Hanging," and correspondence dealing with the publication of Down and Out in Paris and London and the censorship of Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, and Keep the Aspidistra Flying

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