View from the front door of Barnhill
Letter from Orwell to Frank Barber in April 1947: "I am up here [on Jura] for 6 months trying to get on with a novel [Nineteen Eighty-Four] ... The weather here is as disgusting as in England, but it isn't quite so cold and a little easier to get fuel ... These islands are one of the most beautiful parts of the British Isles and largely uninhabited. This island, which is as large as a small county, only has 300 people on it. Of course it rains all the time, but if one takes that for granted it doesn't seem to matter."
TEXT SOURCE
The Complete Works of George Orwell, edited by Peter Davison
(London: Secker & Warburg, 1998)
