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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20030524
Author:MICHAEL PYE

George Orwell by Gordon Bowker

Orwell: The Life by D J Taylor

Little, Brown, GBP 20/Chatto & Windus, GBP 20

IT MUST be a burden, having met George Orwell. A woman to whom he once proposed marriage, which was Orwell's habit in later life, answered DJ Taylor's request for information with a list of the names of the last seven researchers who had been to see her: so many seekers, so few sources and so very little solid information.

Still, it's seemingly irresistible to write about the man - especially, with the book trade trusting in anniversaries almost as much as celebrity, 100 years after ...

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