Orwell

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<p>Orwell has become one of the most potent and symbolic figures in western political thought. Even the adjective 'Orwellian' is now a byword for a particular way of thinking about life, literature and language yet, despite this iconic status, the man who was born Eric Blair in 1903 remains an enigma.</p><p>Drawing on a mass of previously unseen material, D J Taylor offers a strikingly human portrait of the writer too often embalmed as a secular saint. Here is a man who, for all his outward unworldliness, effectively stage-managed his own life; who combined chilling detachment with warmth and gentleness, disillusionment with hope; who battled through illness to produce two of the greatest masterpieces of the twentieth century.</p><p>Moving and revealing, Taylor's<i>Orwell</i>is the biography we have all been waiting for, as vibrant, powerful and resonant as its extraordinary hero.</p>

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D.J. Taylor was born in Norwich in 1960. He is a novelist, critic and acclaimed biographer, whose<i>Orwell: The Life</i>won the Whitbread Biography prize in 2003. His most recent books are<i>Kept: A Victorian Mystery</i>(a<i>Publishers Weekly</i>Book of the Year),<i>Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940</i>, and the novels<i>Ask Alice,</i><i>At the Chime of a City Clock</i>and<i>Derby Day.</i>

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