 | VOCABULARY in the nineteen thirties - w latach trzydziestych (dwudziestego wieku)
Down and Out in Paris and London - Na dnie w Paryżu i w Londynie
The Road to Wigan Pier - Droga do Wigan Pier
Homage to Catalonia - W hołdzie Katalonii
gave him a reputation - zyskały mu reputację
writer - pisarz, powieściopisarz
bluntly honest prose - ostra proza, która otwarcie opisuje zjawiska otaczającego świata
to provide - dostarczyć
adequate - wystarczający, należyty, odpowiedni, adekwatny
he took other jobs - brał/wykonywał inne prace
including .. - w tym, między innymi..
to work - pracować
Hampstead - dzielnica Londynu
bookshop - księgarnia
he wrote quantities of journalism - pisał mnóstwo 'kawałków' dziennikarskich
war - wojna
The Observer - pismo niedzielne o lewicowych poglądach
which he memorably described - którą pamiętnie opisał, w sposób zapadający w pamięć
something halfway between a girls' school and a lunatic asylum - coś pomiędzy szkołą dla dziewcząt a domem dla wariatów
his fortune was made by - zrobił fortunę na
famous - sławny, słynny
novel - powieść
Animal Farm - Folwark zwierzęcy
1984 - Rok 1984
sick - chory
to die - umrzeć
tuberculosis - gruźlica
he was an unashamedly political writer - pisał otwarcie na tematy polityczne, poruszał je bez skrępowania
he would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry - nie był w stanie wydmuchać sobie nosa bez wygłoszenia komentarza na temat warunków pracy w fabryce chusteczek do nosa
blue plaque - niebieska tablica pamiątkowa
Kentish town - dzielnica Londynu
flat - mieszkanie |
Lesson 32
George OrwellBooks in the nineteen thirties such as 'Down and Out in Paris and London', 'The Road to Wigan Pier' and 'Homage to Catalonia' gave him a reputation as a writer of bluntly honest prose but did not provide him with an adequate income.
He took other jobs, including working at a Hampstead bookshop, and wrote quantities of journalism.
During the war he worked for The Observer and at the BBC, which he memorably described as having an atmosphere 'something halfway between a girls' school and a lunatic asylum.'
After the war his fortune was made by his two most famous novels, Animal Farm and 1984, but Orwell was already a sick man and he died of tuberculosis in 1950, the year after the publication of 1984.
He was only forty-six years old. Orwell was an unashamedly political writer and Cyril Connolly, who had been at school with him, once wrote that, 'He would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.'
The blue plaque to George Orwell is on a house in Lawford Road, Kentish Town where he had a flat in the 1930s.
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