Parametry
- 496 stránek
- 18 hodin čtení
Více o knize
Winner of the 2004 Whitbread Prize for Biography"D. J. Taylor has written not only the best recent biography of George Orwell . . . but also one of the cleverest studies of the relationship of that life to the written word." -The Washington Post Book World In the last fifty years, Animal Farm and 1984 have sold more than forty million copies, and "Orwellian" is now a byword for a particular way of thinking about life, literature, and language. D. J. Taylor's magisterial assessment cuts through George Orwell's iconic status to reveal a bitter critic who concealed a profound totalitarian streak and whose progress through the literary world of the 1930s and 1940s was characterized by the myths he built around himself.Drawing on previously unseen material, Orwell is a strikingly human portrait of the writer too often embalmed as a secular saint. This biography is as vibrant, powerful, and resonant as its extraordinary subject.
Nákup knihy
Orwell, D. J. Taylor
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 2004
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (měkká)
Doručení
Platební metody
Tady nám chybí tvá recenze.
- Titul
- Orwell
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- D. J. Taylor
- Vydavatel
- Holt Paperbacks
- Rok vydání
- 2004
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 496
- ISBN10
- 080507693X
- ISBN13
- 9780805076936
- Série
- Štítky
- Naučná literatura, Společenské vědy, Historické téma, Skutečné příběhy, Životopisy, Historie, Politologie & Politika, Autobiografie & Memoáry, Politika, Britská literatura, 21. století
- Hodnocení
- 3,95 z 5
- Anotace
- Winner of the 2004 Whitbread Prize for Biography"D. J. Taylor has written not only the best recent biography of George Orwell . . . but also one of the cleverest studies of the relationship of that life to the written word." -The Washington Post Book World In the last fifty years, Animal Farm and 1984 have sold more than forty million copies, and "Orwellian" is now a byword for a particular way of thinking about life, literature, and language. D. J. Taylor's magisterial assessment cuts through George Orwell's iconic status to reveal a bitter critic who concealed a profound totalitarian streak and whose progress through the literary world of the 1930s and 1940s was characterized by the myths he built around himself.Drawing on previously unseen material, Orwell is a strikingly human portrait of the writer too often embalmed as a secular saint. This biography is as vibrant, powerful, and resonant as its extraordinary subject.