by Sonia Orwell | 1968 | Eng | Pdf | 574 pag | 53.9 MB | Harcourt

In 1940 George Orwell wrote to a friend: "I am very anxious to slow off and not hurry on with my next book, as I have now published eight in eight years which is too much. . . . I've now got an idea for a really big novel, I mean big in bulk, and I want to lie fallow before doing it." After his return from Burma in 1927 he wanted to be a writer in the classical sense of someone who writes books. He would have liked to have left behind him une oeuvre, a long shelf of uniform volumes, not all of which could be expected to be of the same literary value, but which, together, represented a life's work as do the opulent, well-bound "sets" of the complete works of nineteenth-century novelist