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This is the biography of the English novelist and essayist George Orwell. Orwell is the author of "Down and out in Paris", "Homage to Catalonia", "The Lion and the Unicorn" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four".

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George Orwell: A Life 2019, Sutherland House Books

ISBN-13: 9781999439507

Hardcover

 George Orwell: A Life 2018, Harvill Secker, London

ISBN-13: 9781787300927

Paperback
George Orwell: A Life 1992, Penguin Books Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780140145632

2nd edition

Mass-market paperback

 George Orwell: A Life 1982, Penguin Group

ISBN-13: 9780140058567

Trade paperback
George Orwell, a Life 1981, Secker & Warburg

ISBN-13: 9780436114519

REV edition

Hardcover

 George Orwell: A Life 1980, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, Lodnon

ISBN-13: 9780436114502

Hardcover

All Editions of George Orwell: A Life

George Orwell: A Life

2019, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9781999439507

George Orwell: A Life

2018, Paperback

ISBN-13:

9781787300927

George Orwell: A Life

1992, Mass-market paperback

ISBN-13:

9780140145632

George Orwell: A Life

1982, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9780140058567

George Orwell, a Life

1981, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780436114519

George Orwell: A Life

1980, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780436114502

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Andrew S

May 26, 2011

Best biography of Orwell by far

Many biographies have been written about Orwell, but as someone who's written on Orwell's work, I don't think anyone has surpassed Crick. Crick writes clearly and beautiful; the book is worthy of Orwell's own standards. And unlike most of Orwell's biographers, Crick was a noted political thinker himself. While he does write about Orwell's personal life, he rightly regards it as less interesting than Orwell's life as a writer, and refuses to reduce Orwell's ideas to psychoanalysis (which would mostly be speculative anyway; Orwell was not one to reveal his deepest feelings). Without claiming that Orwell was a deep political thinker and without ignoring his flaws, Crick gives a deep and complete account of how Orwell's life as a man of letters developed and why his writing matters as much as it does.

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