George Orwell: A Life in Letters
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Orwell, George, 1903–1950.
[Correspondence. Selections]
A life in letters / selected and annotated by Peter Davison. — First American edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-87140-462-6 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-87140-691-0 (e-book)
1. Orwell, George, 1903–1950—Correspondence.
I. Davison, Peter Hobley, editor of compilation. II. Title.
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Also by George Orwell
FICTION
Burmese Days
A Clergyman’s Daughter
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Coming Up for Air
Animal Farm
Nineteen Eighty-Four
NON-FICTION
Down and Out in Paris and London
The Road to Wigan Pier
Homage to Catalonia
A Kind of Compulsion (1903–36)
Facing Unpleasant Facts (1937–39)
A Patriot After All (1940–41)
All Propaganda Is Lies (1941–42)
Keeping Our Little Corner Clean (1942–43)
Two Wasted Years (1943)
I Have Tried to Tell the Truth (1943–44)
I Belong to the Left (1945)
Smothered Under Journalism (1946)
It Is What I Think (1947–48)
Our Job Is to Make Life Worth Living (1949–50)
Critical Essays
Narrative Essays
Diaries
Photo
Orwell, his mother Ida, his sister Avril, and his father when on leave in 1916.
René-Noël Raimbault, Orwell’s French translator.
Jacintha Buddicom leaving the solicitor’s office where she had relinquished her
daughter Michal (b. 1927) to her uncle and aunt, Dr and Mrs Hawley-Burke.
Jacintha Buddicom in 1948, shortly before
she renewed contact with Orwell.
Norah Myles (née Symes), a close friend of Eileen
from their Oxford days.
The Stores, 2 Kits Lane, Wallington, Herts., which Orwell rented from 1936.
Eileen on the Huesca Front, sitting to the right of the machine-gunner.
Orwell is the tall figure behind her.
At the Independent Labour Party Conference, 1937.
From left to right: John McNair, Douglas Moyle, Stafford Cottman, Orwell, and Jock Branthwaite.
Eileen sitting on the wall of the villa which she and Orwell
rented outside Marrakech, Morocco, 1938.
Orwell milking his goat in Morocco,
helped by Mahdjoub Mahommed.
Three of the five British and American French Foreign Legionnaires
who visited the Orwells in Marrakech.
Orwell’s Home Guard section. Orwell is in the back row on the far right.
Eileen c. 1941.
Orwell with his son,
Richard, at their flat in
Canonbury Square, Islington.
Orwell was a fine shot with a rifle and, surprisingly, a catapult,
as here, photographed by his wife, Eileen, in French Morocco.
Sonia Orwell in the Horizon office on her last day there, shortly after her marriage to Orwell on 13 October 1949. Also facing the camera is Lys Lubbock.
Barnhill, Jura. Orwell’s large vegetable and fruit garden lies at the back of the house.