GEORGE ORWELL: A LIFE.
by CRICK, BERNARD:
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE./Near FINE.
- ISBN 10
- 043611450X
- ISBN 13
- 9780436114502
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,contemporary b/w portrait photograph of subject,illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with black and red lettering, subject's assorted various autobiographical b/w photographs to rear panel of dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Ubiquitous but inevitable light sunning/fading of spine/ backstrip of dw/dj.Top edges generally bright and clean except for a slight stain(?) towards headband area, fore-edges brighter and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain dark brown cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt bands and letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,ix-xxxpp+2-473pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,author's introduction,17 chapters,16pp of contemporary autobiographical b/w photographs in 4 blocks of 4pp apiece between pp98/9,pp130/1,pp258/9 and pp290/1 respectively,appendices (A+B),notes,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,separate contents+illus lists/tables.
This long-awaited for book is the first full biography of one of the greatest English writers of the 20thC.Probably no two English novels of the last fifty years (then 1980) have been more widely read than 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' and 'Animal Farm'; certainly no two works of English fiction have been more influential,in the original as in the translation,while as a political writer,literary critic,journalist and essayist,Orwell has few rivals.
Bernard Crick is the first writer to have been given complete access to the Orwell Estate and to the Orwell archives.He has also interviewed Orwell's many and distinguished friends and lesser-known contemporaries.He is also the first to have been given unlimited rights of quotation from all of Orwell's published and unpublished work.
The result is a major biography of our time.It is also a gripping story of a man who combined so many conflicting qualities.Professor Crick confronts the multiple paradoxes of Orwell by avoiding the simple distinctions between the man and his work,and traces the complex relationship by concentrating on how the essays and books came to be written and published.
It is not enough to read Orwell's fiction as disguised autobiography,nor can his documentary work be treated as merely recorded fact.By focusing on the direct evidence still available,Bernard Crick throws new light on the complex relationship between Orwell's life and his writings.
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- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- GEORGE ORWELL: A LIFE.
- Author
- CRICK, BERNARD:
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- Near FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 043611450X
- ISBN 13
- 9780436114502
- Publisher
- LONDON.SECKER & WARBURG,1980.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- November 1980
- Keywords
- q52.BIOGRAPHY.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 043611450X.Animal Farm.Nineteen Eighty-Four.Eric Blair_George Orwell_novelist_writer_political writer_literary critic_journalist_essayist.Literary biography.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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