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Rebecca Solenitz striking fresh take on the late great George Orwell

comes in a book-length essay titled Orwell's Roses,

a line that occurs chapter after chapter is this.

In the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses.

He also kept a goat and cared about his trees.

Little facts about Orwell, but maybe keys to his work.

We know everything else about the prolific Orwell,

the socialist who abominated the Soviet Union in his masterpiece 1984.

Orwell, the Tory anarchist, he joked about himself

from the lower upper middle class.

Perhaps the most important all-round treasure of an English writer

in the 20th century, the wintry conscience of his time,

and still an endless pleasure to read and admire a new.

Rebecca Solenitz, you found Orwell sort of rosebud

in the roses he grew in a small rural hideaway with his wife

in his mid-30s between his public adventures.

How did you land in the roses?

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