{"product_id":"george-orwell-life-and-legacy-robert-colls-hardcover","title":"George Orwell: Life and Legacy -- Robert Colls, Hardcover","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Orwell has never been more quoted and misquoted. Can he be rescued from the soundbites?\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGeorge Orwell remains a work in progress. He is, or has become, a meme, a global writer, a national treasure, a London statue, a scholarly society, a Prize and a Journal, a trope and a show, various movies and murals, too many misquotations, two adjectives, at least half a dozen fictions, and most recently 'a dead metaphor' with plenty more accolades to come. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eGeorge Orwell: Life and Legacy\u003c\/em\u003e is an intellectual biography which offers an authentic account of Orwell's life and work from his birth in the high noon of British imperialism in 1903, to his death on the eve of the Cold War in 1950--a life played out against a background of two world wars, the rise of communism, and the war-time pre-eminence of the United States. Yet no matter how alert he was to the world order, and no matter how guarded he was in his personal life, Orwell never shied away from the question of who he was, and the contradictions that entailed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis two great modern masterpieces \u003cem\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c\/em\u003e (1945) and \u003cem\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/em\u003e (1949) arrived to define the age he lived in. Interest in him has never abated since; no writer is more quoted or misquoted. Orwell is in danger of being lost to soundbites. Colls reveals the author once again. \"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Robert Colls\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4\" H x 4.9\" L x 0.7\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780198830016\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66570670244144,"sku":"9780198830016","price":23.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9780198830016.jpg?v=1776759768","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/george-orwell-life-and-legacy-robert-colls-hardcover","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}