A life in letters
Title:
A life in letters
Author:
Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Correspondence. Selections
Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
Physical Description:
xviii, 542 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:
A compilation of personal letters creates an autobiography of the author of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" through his correspondence with other literary luminaries, including T.S. Eliot and Henry Miller, as well as letters to complete strangers.
Language:
English
Contents:
From pupil to teacher to author : 1911-1933 -- Publishing, Wigan, and Spain : 1934-1938 -- From Morocco to the BBC : 1938-1941 -- The BBC and the war : 1941-1943 -- Journalism and the death of Eileen : 1943-1945 -- Jura : 1946 and 1947 -- Hairmyres and Jura : 1948 -- Cranham, University College Hospital, and Orwell's death : 1949-1950 -- New textual discoveries.
Personal Subject:
Added Author:
ISBN:
9780871404626
Format :
Book
