, “If this book is persistently irritating, this isexactly what makes it worth reading; few books have enough body in them to beirritants” (Meyers 65-90) Walter Greenwood writes about The Road to Wigan Pier, “Mr.Orwell has the gift of writing vividly, of creating in the mind’s eye a picture of the scenedescribed.” “Of Mr. Orwell’s book, there is little to say except praise...,” commentsArthur Calder-Marshall. “It takes an ugly section of British life, and it forces us toconfront it for what it is,” writes H.J. Laski (Meyers 91-118) “Homage to Catalonia is... abook which is at the same time a work of first-class literature and a political document ofthe greatest importance,” reports Geoffrey Gorer. John McNair for the New Leader,writes, “There have been many books written on the Spanish civil war, but nonecontaining so many living, first-hand experiences as this” (Meyers 119-151) “Mr. Orwellwrites with hard, honest clarity and unanswering precision of feeling,” states of ComingUp for Air, an unsigned notice in the Times Literary Supplement. John Cogley for theCommonweal, writes, “George Orwell, a hard man, is frankly sentimental about theworld he knew as a boy”. “Coming Up for Air, written in 1938, reverts to the journalisticstyle of ease and understatement, the disquietude of Burmese Days worked out of it(Meyers 152-190). “..it is a devastating attack on Stalin and his ‘betrayal’ of the Russianrevolution, as seen by another revolutionary,” writes Cyril Connoly on Animal Farm.“The story is very well-written, especially the Snowball episode, which suggests that thecommunist ‘Trotskyite’ is a conception on much the same plane as the nazi‘jew’...,”writes Northrup Frye for the Canadian Forum. Isaac Rosenfield for the Nation,writes, “George Orwell, to judge by his w...
