Author(s): Taylor, D.J.,
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 25/05/2023,
Pagination: 608 pages, 2x 8pp plate sections,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Constable,
Published By: Little, Brown Book Group,
Book Classification: 20th century, Biography: literary
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781472132963

Description:
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.