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    A Life in Letters
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    A Life in Letters

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    Orwell in the MailOver more than half a century after his death in 1950, Orwell's miscellaneous writings are appearing in authoritative editions: the diaries, the unpublished articles, and now the letters. Of course, many of these writings were printed in the four-volume edition "The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell" edited by his wife Sonia and Ian Angus. Then there is the "Complete Works" of over twenty volumes--but these books are strictly for university libraries and Orwell accumulators. The current selection of Orwell's letters includes previously published, as well as new, letters. As in any such collection its value lies in the editor's choice of items, not necessarily in the quality of the letters themselves. In this, editor Peter Davison has succeeded extremely well. "Orwell: A Life in Letters" is well worth reading both for insights on Orwell's character, as well as that of other correspondents, among whom are his first wife Eileen, some of whose letters are included. Davison has decided that the opinions and viewpoints of others is worth having alongside those of others--and he's quite right.The title "A Life in Letters" is accurate, for there is much Of Orwell's life--and opinions--to be discovered. One thing to be learned is that how very ill Orwell was in the final decade of his life. He suffered lifelong from lung disease, but in the mid-Forties it became tuberulosis. In 1938 and 1939 he lived in Marrakech, Morocco, for his health, joined of course by Eileen. The letters from this period are very interesting and describe bluntly the world around them, and the grinding poverty of the average Moroccans.As a letter writer, Orwell is no Horace Walpole or Virginia Woolf. But he is frank, open, and at times rather cranky. In short, the book is an excellent adjunct to the Orwell literary legacy. Certainly to be recommended. 4
    A Life in Letters

    A Life in Letters

    4.0
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    €56,00
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