A Patriot After All
1940-1941
- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2000
Summary
Volume 12 of The Complete Works of George Orwell
For the twenty-month period of this volume, there are reproduced 123 book, 38 theatre, and 43 film reviews. Inside the Whale, Orwell’s first collection of essays, and The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius are reprinted here.
Later in that year he gave a series of broadcasts on literary criticism, the texts of which are reproduced. Throughout this period Orwell kept a wartime diary;…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780436205408 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0436205408 |
| Author: | George Orwell |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2000 |
| Weight: | 887g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 31mm |
| Series: | The complete works of George Orwell |
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An epoch-making edition…few books published this year will be as worth reading as any one of them
An epoch-making edition…few books published this year will be as worth reading as any one of them – Peter Carey * Sunday Times *
This edition is a wonder – Bevis Hillier * Spectator *
About The Author
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair - better known as George Orwell - was born on 25 June 1903 in Bengal. He was educated at Eton and then served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. He lived in Paris for two years, and then returned to England where he worked as a private tutor, schoolteacher and bookshop assistant. He fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded in the throat. During the Second World War he served as Talks Producer for the Indian Service of the BBC and then joined Tribune as its literary editor. He died in London in January 1950.
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