{"product_id":"george-orwell-life-and-legacy-hardcover","title":"George Orwell: Life and Legacy - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Colls\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Orwell has never been more quoted and misquoted. Can he be rescued from the soundbites?\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Colls, \u003cem\u003eProfessor Emeritus History, De Montfort University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Colls\u003c\/strong\u003e was professor of English History at the University of Leicester before joining the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, also in Leicester. He has written widely on modern British history, and for \u003cem\u003eThe New Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as for other newspapers and journals, and on television and radio including, most recently, \u003cem\u003eThe Rest is History\u003c\/em\u003e podcast. His \u003cem\u003eThis Sporting Life\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2020) won the Aberdare Prize for sport history writing.\u003cbr\u003eHis \u003cem\u003eIdentity of England\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2002), \u003cem\u003eGeorge Orwell: English Rebel\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2014) and \u003cem\u003eThis Sporting Life\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2020) were Books of the Year in \u003cem\u003eThe Times, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The New Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eBBC History Magazine.\u003c\/em\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 4 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52029363224877,"sku":"9780198830016","price":25.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/AgmepKVyWZ9780198830016.webp?v=1777467035","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/george-orwell-life-and-legacy-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}