George Orwell
Life and Legacy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 January 2026
- ISBN 9780198830016
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 180x128x15 mm
- Weight 291 g
- Language English 799
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Short description:
George Orwell: His Life and Legacy by Robert Colls is an intellectual biography which offers an original account of Orwell's life and work from his birth in the high noon of British imperialism in 1903, to his death on the eve of the Cold War in 1950.
MoreLong description:
George Orwell has never been more quoted and misquoted. Can he be rescued from the soundbites?
George Orwell remains a work in progress. He is, or has become, a meme, a global writer, a national treasure, a London statue, a scholarly society, a Prize and a Journal, a trope and a show, various movies and murals, too many misquotations, two adjectives, at least half a dozen fictions, and most recently a dead metaphor with plenty more accolades to come.
George Orwell: Life and Legacy is an intellectual biography which offers an authentic account of Orwell's life and work from his birth in the high noon of British imperialism in 1903, to his death on the eve of the Cold War in 1950—a life played out against a background of two world wars, the rise of communism, and the war-time pre-eminence of the United States. Yet no matter how alert he was to the world order, and no matter how guarded he was in his personal life, Orwell never shied away from the question of who he was, and the contradictions that entailed.
His two great modern masterpieces Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) arrived to define the age he lived in. Interest in him has never abated since; no writer is more quoted or misquoted. Orwell is in danger of being lost to soundbites. Colls reveals the author once again.
More than any other twentieth century writer, George Orwell has been-as Robert Colls puts it-"memeified". A buzzword has overshadowed the singular and unique individual that once existed. In this scholarly reassessment, the man himself is uncovered. Everything is freshly presented--his imperial origins and shifting politics, truth-telling journalism and relations with women. If you want a new view of Orwell, read Colls.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Preface
Orwell in his own words
King's Scholar, Burma Sergeant, 1911-1927
Tramp Writer, 1928-1935
Down the pit and up again, 1936
Into Spain and out again, 1937
Man of the People, 1939-1945
Stepping up and stepping out, 1941-1945
Husbandom
Famous Writer, 1949-1950
Legacy
The Point of being Orwell
Notes
Index
