A compilation of personal letters creates an autobiography of the author of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" through his correspondence with other literary luminaries, including T.S. Eliot and Henry Miller, as well as letters to complete strangers.
Record details
ISBN:9780871404626 (hbk.)
ISBN:0871404621 (hbk.)
Physical Description:print xviii, 542 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Edition:First American edition.
Publisher:New York, NY :Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,2013.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [505]-507) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
From pupil to teacher to author : 1911-1933 -- Publishing, Wigan, and Spain : 1934-1938 -- From Morocco to the BBC : 1938-1941 -- The BBC and the war : 1941-1943 -- Journalism and the death of Eileen : 1943-1945 -- Jura : 1946 and 1947 -- Hairmyres and Jura : 1948 -- Cranham, University College Hospital, and Orwell's death : 1949-1950 -- New textual discoveries.