George orwell: the authorised biography

Shelden reveals George Orwell as a lively, engaging literary personality with an extraordinary experience of history. He restores a sense of drama and passion to this writer's life and shows him to be a captivating character struggling against great turmoil. This biography draws on a range of new sources, from a very candid letter giving evidence of Orwell's romantic attachments to other boys at Eton, to records in the India Office Library which alter the conventional view of his service in Burma.