The authoritative biography of George Orwell, written with the cooperation of Orwell's widow.`In its thoroughness, and its mastery of a considerable volume of material, this is the definitive biography of Orwell.' Sunday Times`It is hardly worth using up space to declare just how good it is.[...]

George Orwell is a writer who has been appropriated by very different political regimes and opinions, pressed into service as his various critics have seen fit. Though a polemicist and satirist at heart, his anti-totalitarian ideals are expounded with deft story-telling and a simplicity that belies[...]

Michael Sheldon's superb biography of George Orwell restores a sense of drama and passion to Orwell's life, revealing him as a fascinating, even heroic character struggling to achieve his ambitions against a background of great public and private turmoil. Orwell's life has to rank as one of the most[...]

George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist. From his earliest published article in 1928 to his untimely death in 1950, he produced an extraordinary array of short non-fiction that reflected - and illuminated - the fraught times in which he lived and wrote. This book charts Orwell's development[...]

George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. Covering the period 1931-1949, this volume follows Orwell from his early years as a writer up to his last literary notebook.[...]

George Orwell was a tireless and lively correspondent. This volume of his correspondence offers a narrative of Orwell's life, from his schooldays to his final illness. It features letters which focuses on a love that would haunt him for his whole life, as well as reveals the inspiration for some of [...]

In one of the most intrepid travelogues in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent traveling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma's underground teahouse intellectuals call simply ?the Prophet.? In stirring prose, she provides a power[...]

"Winston Smith rewrites history for the Ministry of Truth, but when he's handed a note that says simply 'I love you' by a woman he hardly knows, he decides to risk everything in a search for the real truth. In a world where cheap entertainment keeps the proles ignorant but content, where a war witho[...]

George Orwell's 1945 satire on the perils of Stalinism has proved magnificently long-lived as a parable about totalitarianism anywhere - and has given the world at least one immortal phrase: Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others. This new dramatisation sticks very closely to the boo[...]