Orwell : the new life / D.J. Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orwell, George, 1903-1950.

Orwell, George.

Orwell, George, 1903-1950--Criticism and interpretation.

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

Authors, English.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

597 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Pegasus books cloth edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pegasus Books, 2023.

Summary:

An award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, drawing on new sources available for the first time, shows how the way we look at a writer and his canon has changed over the course of the last two decades, presenting a fresh and relevant biography seen through a post-millennial prism.

George Orwell was a prolific author, and his two masterpieces, Animal Farm, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, are regularly invoked to explain the political complexities of a world he may be said to have foreseen. Taylor draws on new sources to show how the way we look at Orwell and his canon has changed over the course of the last two decades. The result is a comprehensive re-evaluation of Orwell's career, status, and relevance to the world of today-- as well as a fresh and relevant biography seen through a post-millennial prism. -- adapted from jacket

Contents:

Orwell in Time

Part I: A Question of Upbringing 1903-1927

1. Then and Now

2. Family Matters

3. The Secret State

Orwell's Face

4. The Wat'ry Glade

5. On the Burma Trail

Orwell's Voice

Part II: The Learning Curve 1927-1933

6. Going Native

7. French Lessons

Orwell and the Rats

8. A Town by the Sea

9. Warm Girls in a Cool Climate

10. Marking Time

Part III: An Age Like This 1934-1936

11. Clergmen's Daughters

Orwell and the Toads

12. Behind the Counter

13. The Only One I Know

Orwell and the Working Classes

14. Another Country

15. Love in a Cottage

Part IV: Catalonia and After 1936-1939

16. Spanish Crucible

17. Street-fighting Man

Orwell in Fiction

18. Spilling the Spanish Beans

19. Rushing Towards the Precipice

Orwell's Enemies

Part V: A Socialist at War 1939-1945

20. The Melting Iceberg

21. Patriots and Revolutionaries

Orewell and the Past

22. The Muse in Striped Trousers

23. Beginnings and Ends

Orwell and the 'Nancy Boys'

Interlude: Orwell and his Boys'

Part VI: The Last Man in Europe 1945-1950

24. Among the Ruins

25. out on a Limb

Orwell and the Jews

26. Pain in Side Very Bad

27. Fairy Gold

Epilogue: Survivors

Acknowledgements - A Note on Sources

Notes and Further Reading

Index.

Orwell's diaries

11. Clergymen's Daughters

Orwell and Gissing

Orwell and the Past

Interlude: Orwell and his World

25. Out on a Limb

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-569) and index.

ISBN:

9781639364510

163936451X

OCLC:

1379316836