Mehr zum Buch
1947. In a damp, run-down farmhouse on the island of Jura, George Orwell is embarking on his greatest work: Nineteen Eighty-Four. Forty-four years old and suffering from the tuberculosis that will eventually take his life, this book is his legacy - the culmination of a career spent fighting to preserve the freedoms which the wars and upheavals of the twentieth century have threatened. Completing the book is an urgent task - a race against death.Dennis Glover explores the creation of Orwell's final work, which for millions of readers worldwide defined the twentieth century. Simultaneously a captivating drama, a unique literary excavation and an unflinching portrait of a beloved writer, The Last Man in Europe will change the way you understand Nineteen Eighty-Fourand George Orwell himself.
Buchkauf
The Last Man in Europe, Sue Glover
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2021
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Paperback)
Hier könnte deine Bewertung stehen.
- Titel
- The Last Man in Europe
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Sue Glover
- Verlag
- Birlinn Ltd
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2021
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 256
- ISBN10
- 1846975344
- ISBN13
- 9781846975349
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Politikwissenschaft, Politik, Schottland, Über Bücher
- Bewertung
- 4,6 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 1947. In a damp, run-down farmhouse on the island of Jura, George Orwell is embarking on his greatest work: Nineteen Eighty-Four. Forty-four years old and suffering from the tuberculosis that will eventually take his life, this book is his legacy - the culmination of a career spent fighting to preserve the freedoms which the wars and upheavals of the twentieth century have threatened. Completing the book is an urgent task - a race against death.Dennis Glover explores the creation of Orwell's final work, which for millions of readers worldwide defined the twentieth century. Simultaneously a captivating drama, a unique literary excavation and an unflinching portrait of a beloved writer, The Last Man in Europe will change the way you understand Nineteen Eighty-Fourand George Orwell himself.