Orwell : the new life / D.J. Taylor.
By: Taylor, D. J. (David John) [author.]
.Publisher: London : Constable, 2023Description: viii, 597 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472132963; 9781472132970.Subject(s): Orwell, George, 1903-1950 | Authors, English -- 20th century -- BiographyDDC classification: 920 Summary: "Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, 'Animal Farm' (1945) and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' (1949) have together sold over 40 million copies. Even now, he continues to exert a decisive influence on our understanding of international power-politics. D.J. Taylor’s new biography, the first full-length study for 20 years, draws on a wide range of previously unseen material – newly-discovered letters to old girlfriends and professional colleagues, the recollections of the dwindling band of people who remember him, new information about his life in the early 1930s – to produce a definitive portrait of this complex, driven and self-mythologising man."-- Taken from dust jacket.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 920 ORW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 020749 |
"Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, 'Animal Farm' (1945) and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' (1949) have together sold over 40 million copies. Even now, he continues to exert a decisive influence on our understanding of international power-politics. D.J. Taylor’s new biography, the first full-length study for 20 years, draws on a wide range of previously unseen material – newly-discovered letters to old girlfriends and professional colleagues, the recollections of the dwindling band of people who remember him, new information about his life in the early 1930s – to produce a definitive portrait of this complex, driven and self-mythologising man."-- Taken from dust jacket.