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Orwell: The Authorized Biography

Michael Shelden

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Orwell: The Authorized Biography

This biography of George Orwell draws on a range of sources including letters concerning his romantic attachments to other boys at Eton, records which alter the conventional view of his military service, a detailed set of medical records and 200 letters and scripts discovered in 1984. Also included are sections from a copy of Down and Out in Paris and London with handwritten annotations by Orwell indicating how much of the book is based on real events.

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Publisher
Vintage
Year
1992
ISBN-13
9780749399122
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
George Orwell's lifeLiterary biography20th-century English literature

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