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.

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
ISBN
9780995994638
0995994633
9780995994614
0995994617
Maße
22 cm
Umfang
xxv, 271 Seiten
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
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).

Klassifikation
Biografie, Genealogie, Heraldik

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
[Vancouver, BC]
(wer)
Locarno Press, an imprint of Simply Read Books
(wann)
2017
Urheber
Wadhams, Stephen
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
To Burma and back -- In search of poverty -- The Spanish crucible -- The road to Animal Farm -- Nineteen Eight-Four.
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