George Orwell: The Road To 1984
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Few writers have left as indelible a mark on the political and literary imagination of the twentieth century as Eric Arthur Blair — the man the world came to know as George Orwell — and Peter Lewis's George Orwell: The Road to 1984 presents a vivid, authoritative chronicle of the life, struggles, and creative evolution that forged one of literature's most prophetic voices. From his formative years in the British colonial service in Burma to the grim coal mines of Wigan, the anarchist trenches of the Spanish Civil War, and ultimately the bleak Scottish island of Jura where he wrote his masterpiece, Lewis maps the extraordinary journey that gave birth to Nineteen Eighty-Four. Richly illustrated and written with the clarity and momentum of a literary detective story, the work argues that Orwell's political convictions and his artistic genius were inseparable — each wound tightly around the other like twin strands of the same relentless conscience. Lewis illuminates how poverty, illness, war, and an unyielding commitment to truth shaped a body of work — from Animal Farm to Homage to Catalonia — that still resonates as a warning to every generation. For anyone who has ever felt the chill of the words Big Brother is watching you, this account will make you want to understand, once and for all, exactly how those words came to be written.
Author: Peter Lewis
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few writers have left as indelible a mark on the political and literary imagination of the twentieth century as Eric Arthur Blair — the man the world came to know as George Orwell — and Peter Lewis's George Orwell: The Road to 1984 presents a vivid, authoritative chronicle of the life, struggles, and creative evolution that forged one of literature's most prophetic voices. From his formative years in the British colonial service in Burma to the grim coal mines of Wigan, the anarchist trenches of the Spanish Civil War, and ultimately the bleak Scottish island of Jura where he wrote his masterpiece, Lewis maps the extraordinary journey that gave birth to Nineteen Eighty-Four. Richly illustrated and written with the clarity and momentum of a literary detective story, the work argues that Orwell's political convictions and his artistic genius were inseparable — each wound tightly around the other like twin strands of the same relentless conscience. Lewis illuminates how poverty, illness, war, and an unyielding commitment to truth shaped a body of work — from Animal Farm to Homage to Catalonia — that still resonates as a warning to every generation. For anyone who has ever felt the chill of the words Big Brother is watching you, this account will make you want to understand, once and for all, exactly how those words came to be written.