Orwell: the Transformation

The making of the man who wrote 1984. Orwell: The Transformation covers the period of four crucial years in which Eric Blair, minor novelist with little or no interest in politics, became George Orwell, an important writer with a view, a mission and a message.

From Down and Out in Paris and London, published in 1932, through the political polemic of the Road to Wigan Pier, to the shattering experience of the Spanish Civil War, this portrayal of the Blair/Orwell metamorphosis provides and indispensable insight into the work of one of the major writers of our time.