A Life in Letters and Diaries

This selection of George Orwell's letters and diary entries follows Eric Blair from school and imperial police service in Burma through years of poverty in Paris and London, reporting from the industrial north, and fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Later pieces cover wartime broadcasting and journalism in London, the writing of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, life on Jura, and the final illness. Correspondents include editors, friends, and his first wife Eileen. The diaries add weather, rations, and working notes; the letters show how those notes were argued in private.

Bound in black cloth with a colour picture printed cloth front board. Blocked slipcase.