Orwell The Life Vintage books 9780099283461 SHORTLISTED FOR WHITBREAD

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD 'Definitive' Daily Telegraph Orwell has become one of the most potent and symbolic figures in western political thought. Even the adjective 'Orwellian' is now a byword for a particular way of thinking about life, literature and language yet, despite this iconic status, the man who was born Eric Blair in 1903 remains an enigma. Drawing on a mass of previously unseen material, D J Taylor offers a strikingly human portrait of the writer too often embalmed as a secular saint. Here is a man who, for all his outward unworldliness, effectively stage-managed his own life
who combined chilling detachment with warmth and gentleness, disillusionment with hope
who battled through illness to produce two of the greatest masterpieces of the twentieth century. Moving and revealing, Taylor's Orwell is the biography we have all been waiting for, as vibrant, powerful and resonant as its extraordinary hero.

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Штрих-код: 9780099283461
Цвет: Серый
ISBN: 9780099283461
Объем: 470
Ширина: 128 мм
Длина: 197 мм
Высота: 31 мм
Автор: Taylor D. J.
Год: 2004
Вес: 366 г
Группа: Книги
Обложка: мягкая обложка
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