01872    a2200277   4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020002400069020002100093040001700114041000900131050002300140082000800163100003300171245005200204260004000256300009800296500004700394504005100441520091000492600003101402600006301433650004601496650005201542BJBSDDR20230411090733.0ta112921s2021    enk||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781448217694 (pbk)  a1448217695 (pbk)  bspacBJBSDDR  aeng 14aPR 6029bO79B 202100a9291 aBradford, Richard,  d1957- 10aOrwell :ba man of our time /cRichard Bradford  aLondon :bBloomsbury Caravel,c2020  a294 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : billustrations (some colour), portraits ; c20 cm  aFirst published in Great Britain in 2020.
  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aOne of the most enduringly popular and controversial writers of the twentieth century, George Orwell's work is as relevant today as it was in his own lifetime. Possibly, in the age of Brexit and populism, even more so. He foresaw 'Fake News' in Nineteen Eighty Four's 'Doublethink', the creation of the EU and predicted that post-Imperial xenophobia would cause Britain to leave it. Separate from his career as a political theorist and novelist, Orwell's life is fascinating in its own right. Disillusioned with his family's upper middle-class complacency, Orwell grew to despise the class system that spawned him, despite finding himself unable to fully detach himself from it. In truth he reserved as much suspicion and distaste for the 'proles' as he did pity. This book offers a vivid portrait of the man behind the writings, placing him and his work at the centre of the current political landscape. 14aOrwell, Georged1903-1950.14aOrwell, George, d1903-1950 xCrítica e interpretación 4aAutores ingleses ySiglo XX vBiografía 4aNovela inglesaySiglo XX xHistoria y crítica