George Orwell : life and legacy / Robert Colls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colls, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orwell, George, 1903-1950.

Orwell, George.

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

Authors, English.

Genre:

Biographies

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 183 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2026]

Summary:

George Orwell has never been more quoted and misquoted. Can he be rescued from the soundbites? George Orwell remains a work in progress. He is, or has become, a meme, a global writer, a national treasure, a London statue, a scholarly society, a Prize and a Journal, a trope and a show, various movies and murals, too many misquotations, two adjectives, at least half a dozen fictions, and most recently 'a dead metaphor' with plenty more accolades to come. George Orwell: Life and Legacy is an intellectual biography which offers an authentic account of Orwell's life and work from his birth in the high noon of British imperialism in 1903, to his death on the eve of the Cold War in 1950--a life played out against a background of two world wars, the rise of communism, and the war-time pre-eminence of the United States. Yet no matter how alert he was to the world order, and no matter how guarded he was in his personal life, Orwell never shied away from the question of who he was, and the contradictions that entailed. His two great modern masterpieces Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) arrived to define the age he lived in. Interest in him has never abated since; no writer is more quoted or misquoted. Orwell is in danger of being lost to soundbites. Colls reveals the author once again.

Contents:

Preface: Orwell in his own words

King's Scholar, Burma sergeant, 1911-1927

Tramp writer, 1928-1935

Down the pit and up again, 1936

Into Spain and out again, 1937

Man of the people, 1939-1945

Stepping up and stepping out, 1941-1945

Husbandom

Famous writer, 1946-1950

Legacy

The point of being Orwell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-176) and index.

ISBN:

9780198830016

0198830017

OCLC:

1553846455

Publisher Number:

CIPO000307624