George orwell death
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‘Orwell: The New Life’ — A Whole New Look at the Master
Orwell: The New Life
By D. J. Taylor
Simon & Schuster/May, 2023
Reviewed by Bob Rae
July 12, 2023
Twenty years ago, D.J. Taylor wrote a biography of George Orwell that, at the time, Christopher Hitchens described in his Washington Post review as “Not only the best recent biography of George Orwell…but also one of the cleverest studies of the relationship of that life to the written word.” Taylor has now written a new, bigger book that contains much new material, information, and perspectives that put his assessment and appreciation of Orwell on an even higher plane.
My own love of Orwell began with reading Animal Farm when I was 14, at the urging of my brother John, and has only grown with the years. His directness, mockery of pomposity, commitment to truth telling, love of popular culture, and his political courage have been my most constant literary companions for over 60 years.
The continuing flow of Orwellian scholarship has been extraordinary, but is richly deserved: Orwell’s life and contrib
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George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
George Orwell ©Orwell was a British journalist and author, who wrote two of the most famous novels of the 20th century 'Animal Farm' and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'.
Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on 25 June 1903 in eastern India, the son of a British colonial civil servant. He was educated in England and, after he left Eton, joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, then a British colony. He resigned in 1927 and decided to become a writer. In 1928, he moved to Paris where lack of success as a writer forced him into a series of menial jobs. He described his experiences in his first book, 'Down and Out in Paris and London', published in 1933. He took the name George Orwell, shortly before its publication. This was followed by his first novel, 'Burmese Days', in 1934.
An anarchist in the late 1920s, by the 1930s he had begun to consider himself a socialist. In 1936, he was commissioned to write an account of poverty among unemployed miners in northern England, which resulted in 'The Road to Wigan Pier' (1937). Late in 1936, Orwell travelled to
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Biography
George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, and critic most famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
The following biography was written by D.J. Taylor. Taylor is an author, journalist and critic. His biography, Orwell: The Life won the 2003 Whitbread Biography Award. His new biography, Orwell: The New Life was published in 2023. D.J. Taylor is a member of the Orwell Council.
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Orwell: A (Brief) Life, by D.J. Taylor
GEORGE ORWELL, the pen-name of Eric Arthur Blair, was born on 25 June 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, where his father, Richard Walmesley Blair, was working as an Opium Agent in the Indian Civil Service, into what – with the uncanny precision he brought to all social judgments – he described as ‘the lower-upper-middle classes’. In fact the Blairs were remote descendants of the Fane Earls of Westmoreland.
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