George Orwell, Author, Keith Gessen, Introduction by, George Packer, Compiled by, compiled by George Packer, intro. by Keith Gessen. Harcourt $25 (374p) ISBN 978-0-15-101355-5 ...

George Orwell Wrote ‘1984’ While ... and it was written by a man whose own life turned into ... “But the truly frightening thing was the emaciation of his body,” Orwell wrote in the book.

Along with a new biography by D.J. Taylor, a British historian, the books draw on letters discovered in the past 20 years between the writer and various paramours, as well as some written by ...

THE COLLECTED ESSAYS, JOURNALISM AND LETTERS OF GEORGE ORWELL. Edited by Sonia Orwell and fan Angus. Four volumes (2,041 pages), Harcourt, Brace & World. $34.80 the set By all odds, George ...

My books of a lifetime vary almost weekly, ... among the moderns I return most frequently to George Orwell. His essays cover everything: tea, language, Dickens, ... written in April 1946.

When Orwell was wounded at the front, she rushed to his side, but her presence there — like most of what she did in Spain — went unremarked in his book. “Orwell spends over 2,500 words ...

Written by visionary George Orwell, "Animal Farm," a political fable still studied all over the world, was published on this day in history, Aug. 17, 1945.