A life in letters
By: George Orwell : selected and annotated by Peter Davison
Contributors: Davison, Peter, 1926- editor
Edition: First American edition.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9780871404626
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Correspondence
Other titles: George Orwell :; O :
Work titles: Correspondence
Description: A compilation of personal letters creates an autobiography of the author of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" through his correspondence with other literary luminaries, including T.S. Eliot and Henry Miller, as well as letters to complete strangers.
Notes: Previously published: London : Harvill Secker, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [505]-507) and index.
Table of contents: title: From pupil to teacher to author, 1911-1933; title: Publishing, Wigan, and Spain, 1934-1938; title: From Morocco to the BBC, 1938-1941; title: The BBC and the war, 1941-1943; title: Journalism and the death of Eileen, 1943-1945; title: Jura, 1946 and 1947; title: Hairmyres and Jura, 1948; title: Cranham, University College Hospital, and Orwell's death, 1949-1950; title: New textual discoveries.