George Orwell: A Life in Letters
«Arouses your warmest sympathy»
Daily Mail
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 A Life in Letters, edited with an introduction by Peter Davison in Penguin Modern Classics. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Classics
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 576
- ISBN
- 9780141192635
- Utgivelsesår
- 2011
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«Arouses your warmest sympathy»
Daily Mail
«A Life in Letters contains nearly everything a reader new to Orwell needs to know about him»
DJ Taylor, New Statesman
«'Mr Davison's new edition of the letters is compelling...unlike a conventional biography, the character of the subject comes through undiluted.'»
Sunday Telegraph
«'This is the authentic Orwell voice: wonderfully clear and fresh and forthright'»
Mail on Sunday
«'the best single-volume selection we could hope for'»
Sunday Times
«'Orwell: A Life in Letters should take its place beside the five major biographies ... as an indepsensible resource for understanding George Orwell and his times.'»
John Rodden