In this bitingly honest autobiographical essay, Orwell recounts his days as a pupil at St Cyprian’s preparatory school in Eastbourne, Sussex. He reflects on a ‘world of force and fraud and secrecy,’ where the actual ‘pattern of school life’ was played out as a continuous triumph of the strong over the weak. Reflecting on the hypocrisy of Edwardian society, Orwell condemns the education he received as ‘a preparation for a sort of confidence trick,’ designed mercilessly to prepare pupils for exams without concern for real knowledge or understanding. This is Orwell as political dissident and supreme chronicler of class conflict.იყიდება წიგნი
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