The Orwell Diaries
$33.16
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
9 July 2010
Summary
Available to a general readership for the first time, Orwell’s diaries give a fascinating insight into the mind of one of England’s most prominent social commentators.
George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. The Orwell Diaries presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook.
An entry from 1931 tells of a communal shave in the Trafalgar Square fountains, while notes fro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141191546 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141191546 |
| Author: | George Orwell, Peter Davison |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2010 |
| Weight: | 378g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 132mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in India in 1903. He was educated at Eton, served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, and worked in Britain as a private tutor, schoolteacher, bookshop assistant and journalist. In 1936, Orwell went to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded. In 1938 he was admitted into a sanatorium and from then on was never fully fit. George Orwell died in London in 1950.
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