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Title: Orwell
Subtitle: The Authorized Biography
Author: Michael Shelden
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-05-12
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 27 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians
Publisher's Summary:
In his probing and revelatory biography of one of the great prose stylists of the 20th century, acclaimed biographer Michael Shelden breaks new ground in the evocation of George Orwells personal life and in our understanding of his art. Based on original interviews, previously undiscovered letters and documents, and astute literary detective work, Orwell is the major biography of one of the great yet elusive literary figures of our time.
Shelden reveals the author of 1984 and Animal Farm as a lively, engaging literary personality. Few writers can rival Orwells experience of history: being shot through the throat in the Spanish Civil War, holding the position of colonial police superintendent in Burma, and living through the Blitz. Shelden restores a sense of drama and passion to this writers life and shows him to be a captivating, even heroic character struggling against great public and private turmoil.
About the author: Michael Shelden spent 12 years as a feature writer for the Daily Telegraph in London and as a fiction critic for the Baltimore Sun. He has written several biographies, including Orwell, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a New York Times Notable Book. He is currently a professor of English at Indiana State University.
Critic Reviews:
This life of Orwell furnishes new details of the career of a writer the influence of whose honesty and decency has been far greater than his literary accomplishments. (New York Times Book Review)
