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Orwell
The New Life
Taschenbuch von D. J. Taylor
Sprache: Englisch

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'D.J. Taylor has written not only the best recent biography of George Orwell . . . but also one of the cleverest studies of the relationship of that life to the written word.' Christopher Hitchens, Washington Post

'A persuasive and profoundly moving exploration of the ways in which Orwell's work was constructed from the stones of a ruined life . . . [it] is likely to prove in many ways definitive.' Hilary Spurling, Daily Telegraph

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 one hundred 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 twenty years, draws on a wide range of previously unseen material - newly discovered letters to old girlfriends and professional colleagues, recollections from 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.

'He presents, I think, the "living" Orwell as well as anyone will ever be able to' John Sutherland

'D.J. Taylor has written not only the best recent biography of George Orwell . . . but also one of the cleverest studies of the relationship of that life to the written word.' Christopher Hitchens, Washington Post

'A persuasive and profoundly moving exploration of the ways in which Orwell's work was constructed from the stones of a ruined life . . . [it] is likely to prove in many ways definitive.' Hilary Spurling, Daily Telegraph

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 one hundred 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 twenty years, draws on a wide range of previously unseen material - newly discovered letters to old girlfriends and professional colleagues, recollections from 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.

'He presents, I think, the "living" Orwell as well as anyone will ever be able to' John Sutherland

Über den Autor
D.J. Taylor's Orwell: The Life won the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Biography. His other works of non-fiction include Thackeray (1999), Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940 (2007), The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918 (2016) and Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature 1939-1951 (2019). He has written a dozen novels, including English Settlement (1996), which won a Grinzane Cavour Prize, Trespass (1998) and Derby Day (2011), both of which were longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His most recent books are the short story collection Stewkey Blues (2022) and Critic at Large: Essays and Reviews 2010-2022 (2023). His journalism appears in a variety of publication on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, the New Criterion, the Critic and Private Eye. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Norwich with his wife, the novelist Rachel Hore.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781472132987
ISBN-10: 147213298X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Taylor, D. J.
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 197 x 127 x 45 mm
Von/Mit: D. J. Taylor
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.03.2024
Gewicht: 0,514 kg
Artikel-ID: 128745465
Über den Autor
D.J. Taylor's Orwell: The Life won the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Biography. His other works of non-fiction include Thackeray (1999), Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940 (2007), The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918 (2016) and Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature 1939-1951 (2019). He has written a dozen novels, including English Settlement (1996), which won a Grinzane Cavour Prize, Trespass (1998) and Derby Day (2011), both of which were longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His most recent books are the short story collection Stewkey Blues (2022) and Critic at Large: Essays and Reviews 2010-2022 (2023). His journalism appears in a variety of publication on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, the New Criterion, the Critic and Private Eye. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Norwich with his wife, the novelist Rachel Hore.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781472132987
ISBN-10: 147213298X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Taylor, D. J.
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 197 x 127 x 45 mm
Von/Mit: D. J. Taylor
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.03.2024
Gewicht: 0,514 kg
Artikel-ID: 128745465
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