title: The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage
author:  George Orwell 
description: <DIV><DIV><DIV>GEORGE ORWELL (1903&#8211;1950)&#160;was born in India and served with the Imperial Police in Burma before joining the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was the author of six novels&#160;as well as numerous essays and nonfiction works. </DIV></DIV></DIV>
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  # Spring Days
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### George Moore
  
  
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  ### PREFACE
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  When Henry Vizetelly, that admirable scholar, historian, and
  
  
  journalist, was sent to prison for publishing Zola's novels mine were
  
  
  taken over by Walter Scott, and all were reprinted except “Spring
  
  
  Days.” This book was omitted from the list of my acknowledged works,
  
  
  for public and private criticism had shown it no mercy; and I had lost
  
  
  faith in it. All the welcome it had gotten were a few contemptuous
  
  
  paragraphs scattered through the Press, and an insolent article in _
  
  
  The Academy_, which I did not see, but of which I was notified by a
  
  
  friend in the Strand at the corner of Wellington Street.
  
  
    
  “W