Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Gene...

Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation. Jeffrey Meyer London: Penguin, 2000 380 pp $Can39.99; $Aus39.90.

"Meyer is the first biographer to have had filled access to the rich hoard of Orwell's literary remains... Orwell substantially modifies the received image of united of the most influential writers of our time. Known primarily as a profoundly principled moralist, he was also, Meyer reveals, a womanizer, ofttimes cruel and sadistic, selfish and over-weening Meyers's frank, thorough, and well-written work certainly surpasses all previous biographies, giving us the whole man