George Orwell : a life
A detailed biography of George Orwell
Print Book, English, 1982, ©1980
Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1982, ©1980
Biography
655 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm
9780140058567, 9780140145632, 0140058567, 014014563X
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'And I was a chubby boy'
The joys of prep school and the echoing green
Learning and holidays
Eton: resting on the oars (1917-21)
An Englishman in Burma (1922-7)
Going native in London and Paris (1928-31)
Hard times or struggling up (1932-4)
Bookshop days (1934-5)
The crucial journey to Wigan Pier and home to Wallington (1936)
Spain and 'necessary murder' (1937)
Coming up for air (1938-9): the political writer
The challenge and frustration of war (1939-41)
Broadcasting days (1941-3)
Tribune and the making of Animal Farm (1943-5)
Famous and solitary man (1945-6)
Jura days
The last days and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Appendix A. The nineteen forty-three outline of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Appendix B. The dating of 'such, such were the joys'
"First published in Great Britain by Secker & Warburg 1980 ... Published in Penguin Books 1982"--Title page verso