Description: On March 29, 1945 Orwell's wife Eileen died at age 39, and her last moving letters to her husband are printed here. Less than six months later, the novel that she might be said to have nurtured and which gave Orwell world-wide fame, "Animal Farm," was published. "Politics and the English Language," one of Orwell's most important essays, was immediately reprinted for journalists of "The Observer" and "News of the World "as a guide to good writing. Essays and articles he wrote for" The Observer, Manchester Evening News, "and "Evening Standard" are reprinted here, as well as  correspondence that shows he had begun writing "1984." 544 pages.

Binding: Softcover