A review by aniahollinshead
Essays by George Orwell

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

I really enjoyed the essays about his personal experiences, as well as some of his political musings, and the miscellaneous pieces about toads and bookshops. I’ve always really enjoyed Orwell’s style and the unique way in which he observes the world. However, I did struggle through a great number of essays focusing on writers and their political standpoints, mainly because I hadn’t read some of their works, rendering the essay largely unrelatable (although this did encourage me to look into reading Kipling and Tolstoy’s essay on Shakespeare!).