Orwell Av D.J. Taylor

<p>Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, <i>Animal Farm</i> (1945) and <i>Nineteen Eighty-Four</i> (1949) have together sold over 40 million copies. Even now, he continues to exert a decisive influence on our understanding of international power-politics.<br><br> D.J. Taylor''s new biography, the first full-length study for 20 years, draws on a wide range of previously unseen material - newly-discovered letters to old girlfriends and professional colleagues, the recollections of the dwindling band of people who remember him, new information about his life in the early 1930s - to produce a definitive portrait of this complex, driven and self-mythologising man.</p>