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Taylor, D. J. (David John), 1960- author.
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Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Orwell : the new lif...
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Orwell : the new life / D.J. Taylor.
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Taylor, D. J. (David John), 1960- author.
New York : Pegasus Books, 2023.
Subjects
Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781639364510 (hbk.) :
163936451X (hbk.)
Description:
597 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition:
First Pegasus books cloth edition.
Contents:
Orwell in Time -- Part I: A Question of Upbringing 1903-1927 -- 1. Then and Now -- 2. Family Matters -- 3. The Secret State -- Orwell's Face -- 4. The Wat'ry Glade -- 5. On the Burma Trail -- Orwell's Voice -- Part II: The Learning Curve 1927-1933 -- 6. Going Native -- 7. French Lessons -- Orwell and the Rats -- 8. A Town by the Sea -- 9. Warm Girls in a Cool Climate -- 10. Marking Time -- Part III: An Age Like This 1934-1936 -- 11. Clergmen's Daughters -- Orwell and the Toads -- 12. Behind the Counter -- 13. The Only One I Know -- Orwell and the Working Classes -- 14. Another Country -- 15. Love in a Cottage -- Part IV: Catalonia and After 1936-1939 -- 16. Spanish Crucible -- 17. Street-fighting Man -- Orwell in Fiction -- 18. Spilling the Spanish Beans -- 19. Rushing Towards the Precipice -- Orwell's Enemies -- Part V: A Socialist at War 1939-1945 -- 20. The Melting Iceberg -- 21. Patriots and Revolutionaries -- Orwell and the Past -- 22. The Muse in Striped Trousers -- 23. Beginnings and Ends -- Orwell and the 'Nancy Boys' -- Interlude: Orwell and his Boys' -- Part VI: The Last Man in Europe 1945-1950 -- 24. Among the Ruins -- 25. out on a Limb -- Orwell and the Jews -- 26. Pain in Side Very Bad -- 27. Fairy Gold -- Epilogue: Survivors -- Acknowledgements - A Note on Sources -- Notes and Further Reading -- Index.
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An award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, drawing on new sources available for the first time, shows how the way we look at a writer and his canon has changed over the course of the last two decades, presenting a fresh and relevant biography seen through a post-millennial prism.
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Hawaii State Library
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823.912 Orwell Ta
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B Orwell Ta
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