Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation

by JeffreyMeyers (Author)

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  2000

  $3.45

  This, the first biography to draw on a close study of the new Complete Works , sheds a new light on this extraordinary literary figure through interviews with family and friends, and research into material in the Orwell archive. It also includes previously unpublished photographs. A child of the waning British empire, Orwell came to reject the class system and through his writing forged a new social consciousness that continues to engage modern intellectual thought. Meyers reveals the human failings of this creative visionary and offers a dark - but nuanced - portrait of the legendary figure.