The Orwell tapes

Zusammenfassung: "The author of Animal Farm and 1984 was a brilliant, eccentric, complicated man. Born into a comfortable English family and educated at Eton, he was, at various times, a member of the colonial police force in Burma, a tramp, a dishwasher, a critic and journalist, a fighter in the Spanish Civil War, a teacher and a shopkeeper. In the summer of 1983, radio producer Stephen Wadhams spent eight weeks crisscrossing Britain and Spain interviewing more than seventy people who had known Orwell for a five-hour CBC radio documentary broadcast on the first day of 1984. The result was a unique resource: more than fifty hours of interviews with a huge range of people, all of whom are now dead. In this fascinating memoir, their recollections of Orwell are woven with biographical detail to produce a very human portrait of one of the greatest writers of our time. The list of contributors includes well-known names like Stephen Spender, Malcolm Muggeridge and Lord Astor, but also the unknown men and women who inspired much of Orwell?s writing: the men who fought beside him in Spain; classmates at Eton; his first girlfriends and confidantes; childhood friends and family members, including his adopted son Richard."--Page 4 of cover.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9780995994638 ; 0995994633 ; 9780995994614 ; 0995994617
• Dimensions: 22 cm
• Extent: xxv, 271 Seiten
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: First published in 1984 by Penguin Canada and affiliates as Remembering Orwell. ; "Based on interviews recorded for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, edited selections of which were broadcast in the 2016 radio program 'The Orwell Tapes' and the 1984 radio program 'George Orwell: A Radio Biography."--Page opposite title page. ; The compiler's name is misspelled as "Wadham" on the title page. ; Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-271).

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Biografie, Genealogie, Heraldik

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): [Vancouver, BC]
• (who): Locarno Press, an imprint of Simply Read Books
• (when): 2017
• Creator: Wadhams, Stephen
• Contributor: Davison, Peter Hobley ; Woodcock, George

Further information

• Table of contents: To Burma and back -- In search of poverty -- The Spanish crucible -- The road to Animal Farm -- Nineteen Eight-Four.
• Rights: Bei diesem Objekt liegt nur das Inhaltsverzeichnis digital vor. Der Zugriff darauf ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 11.03.2025, 12:04 PM CET