George Orwell, a life | Bernard Crick | 1980 |

George Orwell, a life | Bernard Crick | 1980 |This long-awaited book is the first full biography of one of the greatest English writers of the twentieth century. Probaly no two English-novels of the last fifty years have been more widely read than Nineteen Eighty Four and Animal Farm, certainly no two works of English fiction have been more influetial, in† the original as in the translation, while as a political writer, literary critic, journalist and essayist, Orwell has few rivals. Bernard Crick is the first writer to have been given complete access to the Orwell Estate and to the Orwell archives.