The Orwell Diaries

George Orwell, Peter Davison

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Penguin
09 July 2010

Biography; Autobiography: literary; Diaries, letters & journals

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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 from his travels through industrial England show the development of the impassioned social commentator.

This same acute power of observation is evident in his diaries from Morocco, as well as at home, where his domestic diaries chart the progress of his garden and animals with a keen eye; the wartime diaries, from descriptions of events overseas to the daily violence closer to home, describe astutely his perspective on the politics of both, and provide a new and entirely refreshing insight into Orwell's character and his great works.

By: George Orwell
Edited by: Peter Davison
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 377g
ISBN: 9780141191546
ISBN 10: 0141191546
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 09 July 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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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