Things I Don't Want to Know is a brilliantly insightful longform essay by Deborah Levy. 'Things I Don't Want to Know' is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence of
Things I Want to Know
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- Book ID
- 125601361
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Year
- 1948
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 399 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0031-7217
- DOI
- 10.2307/20331684
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