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George Orwell. (In the Margins).(Biography)
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Date: 20030701
Author:Price, Matthew
"He faced the competing orthodoxies and despotisms of his day with little more than a battered typewriter and a stubborn personality."--Christopher Hitchens, in Why Orwell Matters
WHAT WOULD GEORGE ORWELL HAVE THOUGHT of the state of the world today, in 2003, the hundredth anniversary of his birth? It's a question best asked of any of a number of biographers. Stacks of books about Orwell are being released for the occasion, just as fresh editions of the author's own work are rolling out. Here are a few examples:
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