Our Job Is To Make Life Worth Living: 20 - Hardcover

Orwell, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436203782 ISBN 13: 9780436203787

Publisher: Secker, 1999

Synopsis

In 'Reflections on Gandhi', published in January 1949, in which he modified the strictures made in a previous review, Orwell wrote, 'our job is to make life worth living on this earth, which is the only earth we have'. While a patient at the Cotswold Sanatorium, Cranham, he read the proofs of Nineteen Eighty-Four and wrote five reviews. He bagan, but did not finish, an article on Evelyn Waugh, made notes for an essay on Conrad, and sketched out a long short-story, 'A Smoking-Room Story'. The volume includes many unpublished letters, Warburg's report on his visit to Cranham, a clarification of Orwell's public statement on Nineteen Eighty-Four, and a detailed examination, with all the relevant correspondence, of Orwell's relationship with the Information Research Department of the Foreign Office. Two of the last items are a cheerful letter from Nancy Parratt, one of his BBC secretaries, and a letter from Sonia Orwell (whom Orwell had married a few weeks after he was transferred to University College Hospital, London). This volume concludes with a series of appendices.

About this title

Review:

"A scholarly edition of world class" (Bernard Crick New Statesman)

"The edition is a wonder" (Bevis Hillier Spectator)

From the Publisher:

The final paperback volume, Volume 20, of The Complete Works of George Orwell.

About this edition

• Publisher: Secker
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0436203782
• ISBN 13: 9780436203787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 592