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112 pp.
| Oxford
| July, 2000
|
TradeISBN 0-19-512185-6$$22.00
(3)
YA
Oxford Portraits series.
Sober prose traces the life of Eric Blair, who wrote under the pseudonym George Orwell. The book examines his political beliefs, his career as a journalist, and the literary success he achieved near the end of his brief life as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four. Some of his writings are excerpted in this volume illustrated with black-and-white photos. Bib., ind.