- Published: 1 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781409028505
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 512
Orwell
The Life
Formats & editions
- Published: 1 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781409028505
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 512
Fetchingly original...Taylor's [biography] is pacy socio-journalism
Ian Thomson, Scotland on Sunday
Taylor wins the biographical contest...[He] is an accomplished literary critic and he illuminates Orwell's work in the context of his life elegantly and expertly
Guardian
Taylor writes with such skill and aplomb that it's impossible not to be swept along by the intelligence and observations
Independent on Sunday
Taylor's biography is a persuasive and profoundly moving exploration of the ways in which Orwell's work was constructed from the stones of a ruined life-[it] is likely to prove in many ways definitive
Daily Telegraph
Taylor's book has the unmistakable depth of flavour that comes from long, slow, careful cooking-pithy and fascinating
Jan Dalley, Financial Times