Thanks, Frank, for calling attention to this article, which refreshingly acquits PGW of being an unworldly simpleton (he certainly was far from that when it came to royalties). That of course makes him more responsible for what was hardly his finest hour in wartime, but Orwell never found it necessary to get on his case & neither do I, though I am not an uncritical admirer of his writing, far from a cultist, & believe that he always did best in short story form. He taught me a lot about writing short stories, though a million miles away in sensibility, & of course in talent.
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