George Orwell : a life / Bernard Crick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crick, Bernard, 1929-2008, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orwell, George, 1903-1950.

Orwell, George.

Orwell, George,-1903-1950.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (507 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : Sutherland House, [1980]

Summary:

A sublime essayist and author of the masterful political novels 1984 and Animal Farm, George Orwell is at least as relevant in the age of Trump and Brexit as he was in his own short lifetime (1903-1950).

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Preface

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. "And I was a chubby boy"

2. The joys of prep school and the echoing green

3. Learning and holidays

4. Eton: Resting on the oars (1917-21)

5. An Englishman in Burma (1922-27)

6. Going native in London and Paris (1928-31)

7. Hard times or struggling up (1932-34)

8. Bookshop days (1934-35)

9. The crucial journey (1936) to Wigan Pier and home to Wallington

10. Spain and "necessary murder" (1937)

11. Coming Up for Air (1938-39): The political writer

12. The challenge and frustration of war (1939-41)

13. Broadcasting days (1941-43)

14. Tribune and the making of Animal Farm (1943-45)

15. Famous and solitary man (1945-46)

16. Jura days

17. The last days and Nineteen Eighty-Four

Appendix A

Appendix B

Notes

Index

Backcover.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-989555-00-4

OCLC:

1369646343