NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 20, 2012
"Editor Davison (English/De Montfort Univ.) supplies necessary contextual information and footnotes generously, but stays in the shadows and allows us to truly enjoy Orwell's impressive chronicles."
A co-editor of George Orwell's
Complete Works offers a lushly annotated edition of Orwell's diaries from 1931 to 1949.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2008
"More often appreciative and ruminative than critical--but that's OK."
The second of two volumes of the British author's essays, compiled by journalist George Packer.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2008
"A generous display of the great English journalist's distinctive honesty, clarity and reverence for the pertinent fact and the perfect phrase."
The first of two volumes of the British author's essays, compiled by journalist George Packer.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2005
"No matter how many incursions are made into his life, the compelling fascination of this politically and morally crucial author always comes through. "
An outstanding, if somewhat superfluous, account of "one of the great misfits of his generation."
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 3, 2003
"Like many volumes on the groaning shelf of Orwelliana, this reads more like a conversation with fellow monomaniacs than something for the general public. (16 pp. b&w illustrations, not seen)"
Carping portrait of the English patron saint of left-wing anti-communism, by a biographer who displayed a lot more enthusiasm for
Thackeray (2001).
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2002
"Admirers of Hitchens should find no fault with this appreciation, which is of an interesting piece with pal Martin Amis's Koba the Dread (p. 627). Neither should admirers of Orwell."
Vanity Fair columnist Hitchens (
Letters to a Young Contrarian, 2001, etc.), late of the English New Left, provides reassurance for those who've been staying up nights wondering whether George Orwell has any relevance in the post–Cold War world.
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