George Orwell: A Life

By Bernard Crick

Book Overview

A sublime essayist and author of the masterful political novels 1984 and Animal Farm, George Orwell is at least as relevant in the age of Trump and Brexit as he was in his own short lifetime... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316161128
• ISBN13: 9780316161121
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Length: 473 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A complete biography

The book had every thing i was looking for. It showed his life in different episodes. It was very easy to research in it.

Why Crick Writes

Having been encouraged from about the age of twelve to read the essays of George Orwell I read Bernard Crick's recent meditation on him with a sense of gratitude. I haven't read any other work on Orwell which so perfectly conveys his inexhaustibility.Crick's real achievement here is a mastery of Orwell's tone. Orwell's essays keep a reader up until dawn and this book did the same to this reader. I can't say I agree with everything in the book, and have to say that sometimes I didn't grasp Crick's arguments. The chief pleasure of this book is its style; learned from one of the greatest defenders of expressed thought.