[Used Book] Orwell - David John Taylor [Condition: B] /DEJH
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Author: David John Taylor
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Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Publication year: 2003
ISBN: 9780701169190
Upload date：261008
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Despite this iconic status, the man who was born Eric Blair in 1903 remains an enigma. A passionate democratic socialist steeped in the worst illusions of his Edwardian boyhood, a bitter critic of totalitarianism who concealed a pronounced authoritarian streak, a supporter of social equality whose first thought for his adoptive son was to put him down for Eton, his progress through the literary world of the 1930s and 40s was characterised by the myths he built around himself. Whether as a reluctant servant of the Raj in 1920s Burma, a mock down-and-out in inter-war England or a Republican volunteer in Spain, he fashioned an image that was often sharply at odds with the real circumstances of his life.