Rob Schaap wrote:
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> And his essays ('A Hanging' and 'Shooting an elephant' come to mind)
I don't know the first, but the moral of Shooting an Elephant seems to be how those damn natives won't let an honest imperial master consult his own better feelings. How inconsiderate of those naughty children to demand that the poor sensitive Massa put on a show for them.
As to prose style, there must be a dozen or so writers in the field of crime fiction alone who write as well. Johnson's putdown of Swift (which didn't hold for Swift) holds for Orwell. He had a small mind.
Carrol