Facing Unpleasant FactsWhether detailing the horrors of Orwell's boyhood in an English boarding school or bringing to life the sights, sounds, and smells of the Spanish Civil War, these narrative essays weave together the personal and the political in an unmistakable style that is at once plainspoken and brilliantly complex. George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflectedand