A fascinating exploration of George Orwell--and his body of work--by
an award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, presenting the author
anew to twenty-first-century readers.
We find ourselves in an era when the moment is ripe for a reevaluation
of the life and the works of one of the twentieth century's greatest
authors. This is the first twenty-first-century biography on George
Orwell, with special recognition to D. J. Taylor's stature as an
award-winning biographer and Orwellian.
Using new sources that are now available for the first time, we are
tantalizingly at the end of the lifespan of Orwell's last few
contemporaries, whose final reflections are caught in this book. The way
we look at a writer and his canon has changed even over the course of
the last two decades; there is a post-millennial prism through which we
must now look for such a biography to be fresh and relevant. This is
what Orwell: The New Life achieves.