George Orwell: Diaries (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780871404107)

This groundbreaking volume, never before published in the United States, at last introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books throughout his career, the eleven surviving diaries collected here record Orwell's youthful travels among miners and itinerant laborers, the fearsome rise of totalitarianism, the horrific drama of World War II, and the feverish composition of his great masterpieces Animal Farm and 1984 (which have now sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author). Personal entries cover the tragic death of his first wife and Orwell's own decline as he battled tuberculosis. Exhibiting great brilliance of prose and composition, these treasured dispatches, edited by the world's leading Orwell scholar, exhibit "the seeds of famous passages to come" (New Statesman) and amount to a volume as penetrating as the autobiography he would never write.

Author: George Orwell
ISBN-10: 0871404109
ISBN-13: 9780871404107
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 08/20/2012
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.50w x 1.70d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2012 pg. 72
Library Journal 05/01/2012 pg. 81
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2012
Publishers Weekly 05/21/2012 pg. 44
Booklist 07/01/2012 pg. 10
New York Times Book Review 09/02/2012 pg. 1
New York Times Book Review 09/09/2012 pg. 22
Choice 02/01/2013