The veracity of the stories it contains about life at St. It was first published by Partisan Review in 1952, two years after Orwell's death. It was probably drafted in 1939–40, revised in 1945–46, and not completed until May or June 1948. The essay offers various reflections on the contradictions of the Edwardian middle and upper class world-view, on the psychology of children, and on the experience of oppression and class conflict. In the piece, Orwell describes his experiences between the ages of eight and thirteen, in the years before and during World War I (from September 1911 to December 1916), while a pupil at a preparatory school: St Cyprian's, in the seaside town of Eastbourne, in Sussex. " Such, Such Were the Joys" is a long autobiographical essay by the English writer George Orwell.
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