<p>With such varied correspondents as T. S. Eliot, Stephen Spender and Anthony Powell, for nearly forty years George Orwell wrote and received the letters that are now collected together in <i>A Life in Letters</i>, edited with an introduction by Peter Davison in Penguin Modern Classics.<br><br>Personal as well as political, Orwell''s letters offer a fascinating window into the mind of a phenomenal man. We are privy to snatched glimpses of his family life: his son Richard''s developing teeth, the death of his wife Eileen, and his own illness. Candid portraits of Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, his opinions on bayonets, and on the chaining of German prisoners display his magnificent talent as a political writer, and letters to friends and his publisher provide a unique insight into the development and publication of some of the most important novels in the English language. A Life in Letters features previously unpublished material, including letters which shed new light on a lo
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This covetable five-volume boxset brings together selected works from one of the most acclaimed writers of the 20th century, George Orwell. <br/> <br/>Best known for his chilling dystopia Nineteen-Eighty Four and the disturbing parable of...
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George Orwell''s best-known novels, <i>Animal Farm</i>, describing a revolution that goes horribly wrong, and <i>Nineteen Eighty-Four</i>, portraying a world where human freedom has been crushed, are two of the most famous,...
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