News of the World - Orwell's Bye-Bye Line

[Clive G]

A snippet of Orwell used on the last page of the last edition of the 168
year old scandal sheet:

"It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already
asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for a nice long
walk. You put your feet up on the sofa, settle your spectacles on your nose
and open the News of the World."

Checks in the post, George.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14106031

[Joe Fineman]

Post by Clive G
A snippet of Orwell used on the last page of the last edition of the
"It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is
already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out
for a nice long walk. You put your feet up on the sofa, settle your
spectacles on your nose and open the News of the World."
Checks in the post, George.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14106031

He need hardly have been a fan of the _News of the World_ to recognize
it as a national institution. So also in Hoggart's _Uses of Literacy_
(1957):

the Sunday smell of _News of the World_-mingled-with-roast-beef;

According to Hoggart, it was actually read by a majority of the whole
population.

[Clive G]

Post by Joe Fineman
He need hardly have been a fan of the _News of the World_ to recognize
it as a national institution. So also in Hoggart's _Uses of Literacy_
the Sunday smell of _News of the World_-mingled-with-roast-beef;
According to Hoggart, it was actually read by a majority of the whole
population.

Yes, sales of 8.4 million in the fifties suggests a very wide readership.

Picked up this penguin on the day the closure was announced
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- strange cover. I haven't read it yet, so no spoilers.

[Joe Fineman]

Post by Clive G
Picked up this penguin on the day the closure was announced
http://www.highflyer.f2s.com/images/clergymans_daughter2.jpg -
strange cover. I haven't read it yet, so no spoilers.

I hope *this* news won't spoil it, but Orwell himself regarded it as a
potboiler. I found it instructive, tho.