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George Orwell's Essays: The Spike

‘The Spike’ is George Orwell's first published essay (published in April 1931). What is ‘the spike’ that Orwell writes about? We promise that it has nothing to do with volleyball or needles. Instead it an account of Orwell's stay in a workhouse near to the British capital city of London. The conditions in the workhouse are atrocious, and Orwell's writing contains vivid descriptions of human poverty. The essay was the...

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