- 464 pages
- English
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About This Book
A fascinating exploration of George Orwellâand his body of workâby an award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, presenting the author anew to twenty-first-century readers. We find ourselves in an erawhen the moment is ripe for a reevaluation of the life and the works of one of the twentieth century's greatest authors. This is the first twenty-first-century biography on George Orwell, with special recognition toD. J. Taylor's stature as an award-winning biographer and Orwellian.Using new sources that are now available for the first time, we are tantalizingly at the end of the lifespan of Orwell's last few contemporaries, whose finalreflections are caught in this book. The way we look at a writer and his canon has changedeven over the course of the last twodecades; there is a post-millennial prism through which we must now look for such a biography to be fresh and relevant. This is what Orwell: The New Life achieves.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Orwell in Time
- Part I: A Question of Upbringing 1903â1927
- Part II: The Learning Curve 1927â1933
- Part III: An Age Like This 1934â1936
- Part IV: Catalonia and After 1936â1939
- Part V: A Socialist at War 1939â1945
- Part VI: The Last Man in Europe 1945â1950
- Epilogue: Survivors
- Photographs
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- A Note on Sources
- Notes and Further Reading
- Index
- Picture Credits
- Copyright