Of course I stole the title from George Orwell. One reason I stole it was that I like the sound of the words: Why I Write. There you have three shortunambiguouswords that share a sound, and the sound they share is this:III 当然,这个标题是我从乔治 · 奥威尔那里剽窃过来的。我之所以剽窃...
and I could locate the house-and-garden imagery in The Portrait of a Lady as well as the next person, “imagery” being by definition the kind of specific that got my attention—but simply because I had neglected to take a course in Milton. I did this....
“I knew whyCharlottewent to the airport even if Victor did not. “I knew about airports.” These lines appear about halfway through “A Book of Common Prayer,” but I wrote them during the second week I worked on the book, long before I had any idea where Charlotte Douglas had been...
Why did George Orwell become a writer? Why did Shel Silverstein write The Giving Tree? Why did George Eliot write her novels? Why did Hemingway write A Moveable Feast? Why were fairy tales told? Why did Victor Hugo write Les Miserables? Why was The Shahnameh written? Why were Solomon's ...
Why did Stranger in a Strange Land become so popular? Why is Cyrano de Bergerac so popular? Why is The Count of Monte Cristo of literary merit? Why is Johnny Tremain important to literature? Why is The Great Gatsby a banned book?
Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George Orwell Action & Adventure Action and adventure novels feature a main character on a quest to achieve an ultimate goal. The protagonist encounters a series of high-stakes situations, and, by the end of their journey, they’ve overcome these challenges and undergone ...
2. To Make a Name for Ourselves George Orwell says one motivation to write is sheer egoism, that we write out of the “desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on the grown-ups who snubbed you in childhood, etc., etc.” That'...
Fine Unga.2I mean the guy was built like a tank, strong as a bull, and there were rumors going around that he was a street fighter. We looked, dressed, talked, thought, and ate differently. The only thing we had in common was football. So how in the world did we become best ...
Part III 4w-L: George OrwellPart IV 80rh-5: Jorge Luis BorgesPart V D4nt-A: Dante AlighieriI haven’t read some of those authors and didn’t recognize the homage, but it’s a cool Easter egg for other readers. I did see the Wizard of Oz reference at the end, though.So while...
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.George Orwell. Good prose is like a window pane.George Orwell. If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.Woodrow Wilson. ...