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100	1		_aOrwell, George. _96988
245	1	0	_aWhy I write / _c George Orwell.
260			_aNew York : _b Penguin Books, _c 2005.
300			_a119 p. ; _c 19 cm.
490	0		_aGreat ideas
500			_a"This collection first published in Penguin Books (U.K.) 2004."--T.p. verso.
505	0		_aWhy I write -- The lion and the unicorn -- A hanging -- Politics and the English language.
520	3		_aFrom 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 somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life. Nevertheless the volume of serious - i.e. seriously intended - writing which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation.
600	1	0	_aOrwell, George, _d 1903-1950 _x Authorship. _96988
650		0	_aAuthorship. _97155
653			_aPolitics and the English language.
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