I have read before that George Gissing was George Orwell's favourite author. I came across this webpage, which surprisingly appears to be Russian, on Orwell's review of Gissing's work.
I have read before that George Gissing was George Orwell's favourite author. I came across this webpage, which surprisingly appears to be Russian, on Orwell's review of Gissing's work.
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell