Orwell - The New Life

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.

Product details

• Authors: D.J. TAYLOR, D J Taylor, D.j. Taylor
• Publisher: Constable
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781472132963
• ISBN: 978-1-4721-3296-3
• No. of pages: 608
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 238 mm x 60 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Biography: writers