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Author:

Orwell, George, 1903-1950.

Title:

A life in letters / selected and annotated by Peter Davison.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publisher:

Liveright Publishing Corporationa division of W.W. Norton & Company,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xviii, 542 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Orwell, George,--1903-1950--Correspondence.

Other Authors:

Davison, Peter Hobley, editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [505]-507) and index.

Contents:

From pupil to teacher to author : 1911-1933 -- Publishing, Wigan, and Spain : 1934-1938 -- From Morocco to the BBC : 1938-1941 -- The BBC and the war : 1941-1943 -- Journalism and the death of Eileen : 1943-1945 -- Jura : 1946 and 1947 -- Hairmyres and Jura : 1948 -- Cranham, University College Hospital, and Orwell's death : 1949-1950 -- New textual discoveries.

Summary:

A compilation of personal letters creates an autobiography of the author of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" through his correspondence with other literary luminaries, including T.S. Eliot and Henry Miller, as well as letters to complete strangers.

ISBN:

0871404621 (hbk.)
9780871404626 (hbk.)

LCCN:

2013004734

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