Orwell: The Life

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Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award: the authoritative biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century It was not easy to bury George Orwell. After a lifetime of iconoclasm, during which he professed no interest in religion and no affiliation with any church, he asked to be buried in an Anglican churchyard-but none would have him. Orwell's friends fought for him to have a proper grave, however, and the author of 1984, Animal Farm, and Homage to Catalonia, among other brilliant works of prose, poetry, and journalism, was laid to rest in a quiet country cemetery. Almost imm.;Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Epigraph; 1. An Oxfordshire Tomb; Part One 1903-1927; 2. A Question of Upbringing; 3. Eton Medley; Orwell's face; 4. White Man's Burden; Part Two 1927-1936; 5. Cross-Channel; Orwell's voice; 6. Down There on a Visit; 7. Clergymen's Daughters; Orwell and the rats; 8. A Room with a View; Part Three 1936-1939; 9. English Journeys; Orwell and the Jews; 10. Spanish Bombs; 11. Barcelona; Orwell in view; 12. Wintering Out; Part Four 1939-1945; 13. Life during Wartime; Orwell's paranoia; 14. London Calling; Orwell's failure.