Crick .:. George Orwell

Crick, Bernard.
George Orwell. A Life. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1982. 655 Seiten mit Abbildungen auf Tafeln. Kartoniert.

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Crick | Anglistik | Biographien Literatur | Literaturgeschichte | Sekundaerliteratur George Orwell | George Orwell

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Table of Contents "And I was a chubby boy"
the joys of prep school and the echoing green
learning and holidays
Eton - resting on oars (1917-21)
an Englishman in Burma (1922-7)
going native in London and Paris (1928-31)
hard times or struggling up (1932-4)
bookshop days (1934-5)
the crucial journey to Wigan Pier and home to Wallington (1936)
Spain and "necessary murder" (1937)
coming up for air (1938-9) - the political writer
the challenge and frustration of war (1939-41)
broadcasting days (1941-3)
"Tribune" and the making of "Animal Farm" (1943-5)
famous and solitary man (1845-6)
Jura days
the last days and "Nineteen Eighty-Four".

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Ida Mabel Blair (née Limouzin), 1897 (Dakin family)
Eric Blair, six weeks old (Dakin family)
Ida Blair, Marjorie and Eric, in the garden of 'The Nutshell', Henley-on-Thames, 1906 (Dakin family)
Three years old (Dakin family)
Mr Blair on leave, 1916 (Parents - Ida Mabel and Richard Walmesley Blair with children Marjorie and Eric) (Dakin family)
Eric Blair, Guinever and Prosper Buddicom, at Church Stretton, Shropshire, September 1917 (Guinever Buddicom)
At 'Athens' after swimming, summer 1919 (Denys King-Farlow)
Asking for trouble, 1919 (Denys King-Farlow)
Before an Eton Wall Game, 1921 (Orwell Archive)
Burma Provincial Police Training School, Mandalay, 1923 (Eric Blair standing third from left) (Orwell Archive)
Montague House, Southwold (Orwell Archive)
Mrs Blair with dog and friend, Southwold High Street, mid-1930s (Dakin family)
Teaching at the Hawthorns, 1933 (Geoffrey Stevens)
Southwold beach, 1934 (Dennis Collings)
The P.O.U.M. centuria leaving Lenin barracks, Barcelona, January 1937 (Senora Rovira)
Eileen Blair visits Eric and the ILP contingent at the front near Huesca, March 1937 (Orwell Archive)
Spanish comrades meet again, I.L.P. Summer School at Letchworth, 1937. (Left to right) John MacNair, Douglas Moyle, Stafford Cottman, George Orwell, Jock Braithwaite (Orwell Archive)
Identity papers at Marrakesh, September 1938 (Orwell Archive)
Feeding Muriel at Wallington, summer 1939 (Dennis Collings)
Eileen Blair, circa 1941 (Dakin family)
Union card, dated 29 December 1943 (Orwell Archive)
'VOICE' - the monthly radio magazine programme in the Eastern Service of the B.B.C. (Left to right, sitting) Venu Chitale, J. M. Tambimuttu, T. S. Eliot, Una Marson, Mulk Raj Anand, C. Pemberton, Narayana Menon
(standing) George Orwell, Nancy Barrat, William Empson (Copyright BBC)
Orwell with Richard, Islington, winter 1945 (Vernon Richards)
Eileen and baby Richard, 1944 (Vernon Richards)
Orwell and baby Richard, 1944 (Dakin family)
Orwell talking in his flat in Islington, winter 1945 (Vernon Richards)
Sonia Blair (née Brownell), October 1949 (Orwell Archive)
Orwell taking a break from writing, winter 1945 (Vernon Richards)
Orwell typing in his flat in Islington, winter 1945 (Vernon Richards)
Barnhill, 1948 (Dakin family)

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