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Orwell

The New Life

D. J. Taylor
Englisch | Hardcover

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.<BR><BR> 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.

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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.<BR><BR> 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.

Untertitel
The New Life
H | B | T | Gramm
236 mm | 162 mm | 52 mm | 0.968 kg
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
FSK
0
Ausgabe
Hardcover
Verlag
Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN-10
1472132963
ISBN-13
9781472132963
Autor
D. J. Taylor
Sprache
Englisch
Seitenanzahl
608
Themen
Biografien: Schriftsteller
Keywords
HC/Belletristik/Biographien, Erinnerungen, Biografien: Schriftsteller
Verantwortliche Person gemäß Art. 16 GPSR
Hachette Ireland, 8 Castlecourt Centre, Castleknock Road, Castleknock, Dublin 15, D15 XTP3, Dublin, IE, info@hbgi.ie

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