{"product_id":"facing-unpleasant-facts-george-orwell-9780156033138","title":"Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected--and illuminated--the fraught times in which he lived. \"As soon as he began to write something,\" comments George Packer in his foreword, \"it was as natural for Orwell to propose, generalize, qualify, argue, judge--in short, to think--as it was for Yeats to versify or Dickens to invent.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFacing Unpleasant Facts \u003c\/em\u003echarts Orwell's development as a master of the narrative-essay form and unites such classics as \"Shooting an Elephant\" with lesser-known journalism and passages from his wartime diary. Whether detailing the horrors of Orwell's boyhood in an English boarding school or bringing to life the sights, sounds, and smells of the Spanish Civil War, these essays weave together the personal and the political in an unmistakable style that is at once plainspoken and brilliantly complex. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Orwell, George Packer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0156033135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780156033138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.88h x 5.34w x 0.81d","brand":"George Orwell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049509908735,"sku":"9780156033138","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3e0d3308-b705-426c-8b2e-82adea97d81e.jpg?v=1685001974","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/facing-unpleasant-facts-george-orwell-9780156033138","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}