v. 1. An age like this, 1920-1940 -- v. 2. My country right or left, 1940-1943 -- v. 3. As I please, 1943-1946 -- v. 4. In front of your nose, 1946-1950.
George Orwell is widely considered one of the greatest writers of
the past century. Although his novels 1984 and Animal Farm are now
the most widely-read of his works, Orwell was primarily a
nonfiction writer. The occasionally radical political content in
his essays, memoirs, and journalistic works brought him some
censure during his life, but they now make up one of the most
celebrated bodies of work in the English language.
Sonia Brownell Orwell, as a young woman, was responsible for
transcribing and editing the copy text for the first edition of the
Winchester Malory as assistant to the eminent medievalist at
Manchester University, Eugene Vinaver. Brownell first met Orwell
when she worked as the assistant to Cyril Connolly, a friend of his
from Eton College, at the literary magazine Horizon. The two were
married in October 1949, only three months before Orwell's death
from tuberculosis.
Ian Angus, a widely recognized Orwell scholar for decades, helped
establish the Orwell Archive at University College, London and, in
1968, worked with Sonia Orwell in editing Orwell's Collected
Journalism, Essays and Letters published by Secker & Warburg in
England.
"* "It is an astonishing tribute to Orwell's gifts as a natural, unaffected writer that, although the historical events he is unfolding are all too bitterly familiar, the reader turns the page as though he did not know what was going to happen. Here, then, is a social, literary, and political history... which, while being intensely personal never forgets its allegiance to objective truth." -THE ECONOMIST"
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