Name: George Orwell
ISBN: 978-0-230-37140-8

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xxvii

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Getting Started
- Peter Davison
Pages 1-14
Foreign Fields
- Peter Davison
Pages 15-37
The Profession of Author
- Peter Davison
Pages 38-66
The Turning-Point: Wigan and Spain
- Peter Davison
Pages 67-87
Orwell as Reviewer and Essayist
- Peter Davison
Pages 88-110
Events Leading Up to the War and the BBC Years
- Peter Davison
Pages 111-120
The Last Five Years
- Peter Davison
Pages 121-139
Conclusion
- Peter Davison
Pages 140-147
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Pages 148-175

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This account of Orwell's life is chiefly concerned with what influenced Orwell, his relations with publishers and editors, and the analysis of certain key experiences - the deposition that during the Spanish Civil War he was guilty of espionage and high treason; his work at the BBC; his interest in pamphlet literature; and his time as a war correspondent. There is a detailed assessment of his earnings from 1922 to 1945 and a fresh look at his attitudes to class, women, and religious belief. Special attention is paid to his essays.

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De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

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Book Title: George Orwell
Book Subtitle: A Literary Life
Authors: Peter Davison
Series Title: Literary Lives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371408
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-12820-3Published: 12 May 1996
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-54158-6Published: 08 March 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37140-8Published: 08 March 1996
Series ISSN: 2946-2037
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2045
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 175
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction

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