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Author: Michael Shelden ,
Frederick Davidson
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Imprint: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions:
Width: 17.50cm
, Height: 5.10cm
, Length: 15.70cm
Weight: 0.499kg
ISBN: 9781455155231
ISBN 10: 1455155233
Publication Date: 20 June 2012
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
[Shelden] offers a sympathetic but balanced account of Orwell's life, and communicates well the wonderfully lucid, lively, and still very relevant quality of his writings. -- Baltimore Sun Intrinsically interesting...What Shelden does best is show how such events and circumstances as war and conflicts with authority shaped Orwell's writing. -- Publishers Weekly Not a dry summation of facts and figures, obsessions and works, this book brims with humor and compassion...A once-thought shy observer of humanity (and inhumanity) here becomes a passionate democratic socialist. A fine work. -- Booklist This life of Orwell furnishes new details of the career of a writer the influence of whose honesty and decency has been far greater than his literary accomplishments. -- New York Times Book Review
Not a dry summation of facts and figures, obsessions and works, this book brims with humor and compassion...A once-thought shy observer of humanity (and inhumanity) here becomes a passionate democratic socialist. A fine work. -- Booklist Intrinsically interesting...What Shelden does best is show how such events and circumstances as war and conflicts with authority shaped Orwell's writing. -- Publishers Weekly [Shelden] offers a sympathetic but balanced account of Orwell's life, and communicates well the wonderfully lucid, lively, and still very relevant quality of his writings. -- Baltimore Sun This life of Orwell furnishes new details of the career of a writer the influence of whose honesty and decency has been far greater than his literary accomplishments. -- New York Times Book Review
[Shelden] offers a sympathetic but balanced account of Orwell's life, and communicates well the wonderfully lucid, lively, and still very relevant quality of his writings. -- ""Baltimore Sun"" Intrinsically interesting...What Shelden does best is show how such events and circumstances as war and conflicts with authority shaped Orwell's writing. -- ""Publishers Weekly"" Not a dry summation of facts and figures, obsessions and works, this book brims with humor and compassion...A once-thought shy observer of humanity (and inhumanity) here becomes a passionate democratic socialist. A fine work. -- ""Booklist"" This life of Orwell furnishes new details of the career of a writer the influence of whose honesty and decency has been far greater than his literary accomplishments. -- ""New York Times Book Review""
Author Information
Michael Shelden spent twelve years as a feature writer for the Daily Telegraph in London and as a fiction critic for the Baltimore Sun. He has written several biographies, including Orwell, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a New York Times Notable Book. He is currently a professor of English at Indiana State University. Frederick Davidson (1932-2005), also known as David Case, was one of the most prolific readers in the audiobook industry, recording more than eight hundred audiobooks in his lifetime, including over two hundred for Blackstone Audio. Born in London, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and performed for many years in radio plays for the British Broadcasting Company before coming to America in 1976. He received AudioFile's Golden Voice Award and numerous Earphones Awards and was nominated for a Grammy for his readings.
