Orwell : the life / D.J. Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, D. J. (David John), 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orwell, George, 1903-1950.

Orwell, George.

Authors, English--20th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Journalists--Great Britain--Biography.

Journalists.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

466 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt, 2003.

Summary:

At last, a fresh, comprehensive biography of the twentieth century's most emblematic writer In the last fifty years, "Animal Farm and "1984 have sold over forty million copies, and "Orwellian" is now a byword for a particular way of thinking about life, literature, and language. D. J. Taylor's magisterial assessment cuts through George Orwell's iconic status to reveal a bitter critic who concealed a profound totalitarian streak and whose progress through the literary world of the 1930s and 1940s was characterized by the myths he built around himself. But whether as reluctant servant of the Raj in 1920s Burma, mock down-and-outer in Paris and London, or Spanish Civil War soldier, the circumstances of his life are sharply at odds with the image Orwell so effectively stage-managed. Drawing on previously unseen material, "Orwell is a strikingly human portrait of the writer too often embalmed as a secular saint. This is the biography we have been waiting for-as vibrant, powerful, and resonant as its extraordinary subject.

Notes:

"A John Macrae book."

Originally published: Great Britain: Chatto & Windus, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-449) and index.

ISBN:

0805074732

OCLC:

51799788

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