Rebecca Solnit’s invigorating new book, “Orwell’s Roses,” grew out of a casual conversation with a friend about a newspaper column Orwell wrote in 1946 about the fruit trees and rosebushes he planted around his rural cottage outside London. This led her to realize that all his writing, even the most political, is suffused with a passion for the natural world.
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