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- 496 páginas
- 18 horas de lectura
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Winner of the 2004 Whitbread Prize for Biography"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." -The Washington Post Book World In the last fifty years, Animal Farm and 1984 have sold more than forty million copies, and "Orwellian" is now a byword for a particular way of thinking about life, literature, and language. D. J. Taylor's magisterial assessment cuts through George Orwell's iconic status to reveal a bitter critic who concealed a profound totalitarian streak and whose progress through the literary world of the 1930s and 1940s was characterized by the myths he built around himself.Drawing on previously unseen material, Orwell is a strikingly human portrait of the writer too often embalmed as a secular saint. This biography is as vibrant, powerful, and resonant as its extraordinary subject.
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Orwell, D. J. Taylor
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- Publicado en
- 2004
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- Título
- Orwell
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- D. J. Taylor
- Editorial
- Holt Paperbacks
- Publicado en
- 2004
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 496
- ISBN10
- 080507693X
- ISBN13
- 9780805076936
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Ciencias sociales, Tema histórico, Historia, Historias reales, Biografías, Ciencias políticas & Política, Política, Autobiografías y memorias, Literatura Británica, Siglo XXI
- Calificación
- 3,95 de 5
- Descripción
- Winner of the 2004 Whitbread Prize for Biography"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." -The Washington Post Book World In the last fifty years, Animal Farm and 1984 have sold more than forty million copies, and "Orwellian" is now a byword for a particular way of thinking about life, literature, and language. D. J. Taylor's magisterial assessment cuts through George Orwell's iconic status to reveal a bitter critic who concealed a profound totalitarian streak and whose progress through the literary world of the 1930s and 1940s was characterized by the myths he built around himself.Drawing on previously unseen material, Orwell is a strikingly human portrait of the writer too often embalmed as a secular saint. This biography is as vibrant, powerful, and resonant as its extraordinary subject.