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The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell (1984)
EN USISBN: 1582432430 bzw. 9781582432434, in Englisch, Counterpoint Press, gebraucht.
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arts and literature,authors,biographical,biographies,biographies and history,biography and history,history and criticism,literary criticism,literary criticism and collections,literature and fiction, The Girl from the Fiction Department : A Portrait of Sonia Orwell, Here is the real "Julia" from 1984--George Orwell's wife and widow Sonia, in all her sadness, splendor, and ferocity. "A full and fascinating portrait of a complex, strong, and puzzling personality." --Literary Review. The portrait of George Orwell's second wife drawn by his biographers is a travesty. Determined to set the record straight, her friend, biographer Hilary Spurling, reveals the whole story of Sonia Orwell's sad and splendid life. Beautiful, intelligent, and idealistic, Sonia was the model for Julia, heroine of Orwell's 1984. Her friends and admirers included W. H. Auden, Lucian Freud, and Francis Bacon. She was Cyril Connolly's indispensable assistant on the influential literary magazine Horizon during the 1940s, and in the '60s she co-edited the groundbreaking four-volume collection of Orwell's nonfiction writings. But after the failure of her second marriage, Sonia's life began to go wrong, ending in penury and despair due to the burden unwittingly placed on her by George Orwell at his death. Some have since seen her as a mythical heroine; others have depicted her as mean and mercenary. Spurling portrays the real Sonia Orwell in all her generous, spirited, ferocious, and self-doubting complexity.
arts and literature,authors,biographical,biographies,biographies and history,biography and history,history and criticism,literary criticism,literary criticism and collections,literature and fiction, The Girl from the Fiction Department : A Portrait of Sonia Orwell, Here is the real "Julia" from 1984--George Orwell's wife and widow Sonia, in all her sadness, splendor, and ferocity. "A full and fascinating portrait of a complex, strong, and puzzling personality." --Literary Review. The portrait of George Orwell's second wife drawn by his biographers is a travesty. Determined to set the record straight, her friend, biographer Hilary Spurling, reveals the whole story of Sonia Orwell's sad and splendid life. Beautiful, intelligent, and idealistic, Sonia was the model for Julia, heroine of Orwell's 1984. Her friends and admirers included W. H. Auden, Lucian Freud, and Francis Bacon. She was Cyril Connolly's indispensable assistant on the influential literary magazine Horizon during the 1940s, and in the '60s she co-edited the groundbreaking four-volume collection of Orwell's nonfiction writings. But after the failure of her second marriage, Sonia's life began to go wrong, ending in penury and despair due to the burden unwittingly placed on her by George Orwell at his death. Some have since seen her as a mythical heroine; others have depicted her as mean and mercenary. Spurling portrays the real Sonia Orwell in all her generous, spirited, ferocious, and self-doubting complexity.
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Girl From The Fiction Department a Portrait of Sonia Orwell (2003)
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The Girl From the Fiction Department: a Portrait of Sonia Orwell (2003)
EN HC USISBN: 9781582432434 bzw. 1582432430, in Englisch, Counterpoint, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
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The Girl From the Fiction Department: a Portrait of Sonia Orwell (2003)
EN HC USISBN: 9781582432434 bzw. 1582432430, in Englisch, Counterpoint Press, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
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Hardcover.
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The Girl From the Fiction Department: a Portrait of Sonia Orwell (2003)
EN HC USISBN: 9781582432434 bzw. 1582432430, in Englisch, Counterpoint Press, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, plus shipping, Shipping area: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, ThriftBooks - Silver Arch, MO, St. Louis, [RE:4].
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, ThriftBooks - Silver Arch, MO, St. Louis, [RE:4].
Hardcover.
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