A Life in Letters

Informationen zum Autor Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell , was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia . Klappentext Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in India in 1903. He was educated at Eton, served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, and worked in Britain as a private tutor, schoolteacher, bookshop assistant and journalist. In 1936, Orwell went to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded. In 1938 he was admitted into a sanatorium and from then on was never fully fit. George Orwell died in London in 1950. Peter Davison has published over one hundred volumes on drama, bibliographical and cultural studies, and George Orwell. He was appointed OBE in 1999 for services to Enlgish Literature, and in 2003 was awarded the Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society. Zusammenfassung Provides an insight into the development and publication of some of the most important novels in the English language. This title features letters which sheds light on a love that would haunt him for his whole life, as well as revealing the inspiration for some of his most famous characters.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Davison, George Orwell
• Assisted by: Peter Davison (Editor)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.01.2011
• EAN: 9780141192635
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119263-5
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Autobiography: literary, Diaries, letters and journals, Autobiography: writers