Con corrispondenti così diversi come ts eliot, stephen spender e anthony powell, per quasi quarant'anni george orwell scrisse e ricevette le lettere che ora sono raccolte insieme in a life in letters, curato con un'introduzione di peter davison in penguin modern classics. Sia personali che politiche, le lettere di orwell offrono un'affascinante finestra sulla mente di un uomo fenomenale. Siamo a conoscenza di scorci rubati della sua vita familiare: i denti in via di sviluppo di suo figlio richard, la morte di sua moglie eileen e la sua stessa malattia. Ritratti sinceri di barcellona durante la guerra civile spagnola, le sue opinioni sulle baionette e sull'incatenamento dei prigionieri tedeschi mostrano il suo magnifico talento di scrittore politico, e le lettere ad amici e al suo editore forniscono una visione unica dello sviluppo e della pubblicazione di alcuni dei romanzi più importanti in lingua inglese. A life in letters contiene materiale inedito, tra cui lettere che gettano nuova luce su un amore che lo avrebbe perseguitato per tutta la vita, oltre a rivelare l'ispirazione per alcuni dei suoi personaggi più famosi. Presentata per la prima volta in un volume dedicato, questa selezione di lettere di orwell è un compagno indispensabile dei suoi diari. "probabilmente lo scrittore più influente scaturito dall'occidente nel ventesimo secolo.. Il vero orwell, chiunque egli sia, continua a prendere forma" the times
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Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in India in 1903. He was educated at Eton, served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, and worked in Britain as a private tutor, schoolteacher, bookshop assistant and journalist. In 1936, Orwell went to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded. In 1938 he was admitted into a sanatorium and from then on was never fully fit. George Orwell died in London in 1950.
Peter Davison has published over one hundred volumes on drama, bibliographical and cultural studies, and George Orwell. He was appointed OBE in 1999 for services to Enlgish Literature, and in 2003 was awarded the Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society.
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