Pleasance, EdinburghGeorge Orwell's 1933 novel is entwined with Polly Toynbee's book Hard Work in a neatly performed study of poverty then and nowEric Blair became George Orwell during his time in Paris in the late 1920s, transformed from a public school-educated young man who liked the idea of being a poet, but who had "nothing to say", into a political writer. Blair was a man blinded by his own privilege; Orwell ob…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:38AM on August 6, 2015