Ah, that’s better
Colin Burrow: Orwell’s Anti-Radicalism, 5 October 2023
George Orwell’s Perverse Humanity: Socialism and Free Speech
by Glenn Burgess.
Bloomsbury, 270 pp., £21.99, May,978 1 5013 9466 9 Show More
by Glenn Burgess.
Bloomsbury, 270 pp., £21.99, May,
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life
by Anna Funder.
Viking, 464 pp., £20, August,978 0 241 48272 8 Show More
by Anna Funder.
Viking, 464 pp., £20, August,
“... a personal dislike to the man that we can’t look the dog in the face when we speak to him.’Anna Funder’s Wifedom, which is part novel, part biography, builds these letters into a story about Eileen, which brings out all of her wit, and pulls no punches in detailing Orwell’s bad behaviour towards women. ... ”
