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Inside George Orwell : A Biography by Gordon Bowker (2003, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

ISBN-10031223841X

ISBN-139780312238414

eBay Product ID (ePID)24038277631

Product Key Features

Book TitleInside George Orwell : a Biography

Number of Pages512 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

TopicLiterary, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorGordon Bowker

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-054854

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"...superior...exhaustively researched and packed with telling detail."--Cameron McWhirter, Atlanta Journal-Constitution "[a] substantial, fine achievement..."--John Banville, The New York Review of Books "...add[s] much to our understanding of Orwell..."--Carl Rollyson, New York Sun "Bowker's centenary biography is the best of the many since Orwell's death..."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Bowker covers the now familiar terrain of Orwell's short life in fascinating-and sometimes controversial-detail."--Library Journal "...the great strength of his book is its original research and revelations."--Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Prospect Magazine "...shrewd, readable, well-researched... largely favourable to their subject without being blind to his shortcomings."--Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books "...magisterial biography..."--Roger Lewis, Sunday Express " ...he has the ability to select the right detail and let it speak for itself."--Jonathan Bale, Sunday Telegraph "[Orwell is]...a voice that speaks as urgently to our times as it did to his."--The Economist"

Dewey Decimal828/.91209 B

Table Of ContentThe Inheritance * "The Golden Age" * Pathos and Nightmare * "Absorbing Wisdom Unawares" * "The Pain of Exile" * Picking up the Thread * Getting a Footing * The Invention of George Orwell * Tory Anarchist Meets James Joyce * Journeys of Discovery * The Spanish Betrayal * The Road to Morocco * One Character in Search of a War * War of Words * Tribune of The People * The Dark Side of Solitude * The Man Who Loved Islands * The Nightmare and the Novel * The End of the Beginning * Life after Death

SynopsisBig Brother, Newspeak, Room 101, Doublethink. Few writers can boast the brilliant legacy of George Orwell, both in his numerous additions to the English language and in his profound influence on world literature. This book attempts to bring to life the man behind the words. It explores the influence of his childhood and Eton education, his experience as a policeman in Burma, his deliberate plunge into poverty and his experiences in the Spanish Civil War in the creation of the consciousness of the man who produced Animal Farm and 1984. The book includes new material on Orwell's complex and sometimes reckless sex life, new evidence of his being hunted and spied on in Spain, his paranoia about possible assassination, the strange circumstances of his first marriage and his deathbed wedding to a woman fifteen years his junior. This new material enables this biographer to cast new light on Orwell, the inner man, as well as on Orwell, the great author.

LC Classification NumberPR6029.R8Z5893 2003