Buy this book on-line CAUTE, DAVID: : DR ORWELL AND MR BLAIRLONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON LTD.,1994. ISBN 0297814389.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.
Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated dw/dj;
with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+
fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright, tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - but an accidental(?) vertical,diagonal crease lightly affecting ffe,half-title+ title pages - probably the only fault. Clean,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip, with clean,plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,vii (prologue)+1-210pp
[paginated] includes 12 chapters,an appendix; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication and 6pp blanks to
rear.
The year is 1943 and drawing to its close. Winter is descending on a small,run-down farm.Confronted by a sudden family catastrophe,a twelve-year-old country boy fights bravely to keep his animals alive while predatory neighbours wait to pick off the prize - Manor Farm.
Their names may seem familiar - Pilkington,Frederick and 'Knacker' Simmonds.And then there is the young country boy,Alex Jones.His surname is common enough,and yet it too is drawn from
the same source - a famous novel.The stranger,who calls himself Eric Blair, brings with him tall stories,tins of precious food,a love of the countryside, peculiar prejudices and a knowledge of the
wider world unimagined by Alex and his school friends.Now fatherless himself,the
wild boy Alex becomes enthralled by this
'Eric',who confesses that he's a writer,
but gives little away the true purpose of his visits.
The reader will uncover the truth long before Alex.This is the story of how George Orwell came to write his classic Animal Farm,first published almost fifty years ago.But is the story true or not? Is this a chapter of hitherto unrevealed biography or a complete fiction? Whatever the verdict, the reader will be absorbed by David Caute's vivid portrait of the man who was both 'Dr Orwell' and 'Mr Blair'.
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