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Peter Davison obituary
Leading authority on the life of George Orwell who edited the mammoth 20-volume George Orwell: The Complete Works
Without the efforts of Peter Davison, who has died aged 95, our knowledge of the life and works of George Orwell would be immeasurably the poorer. In an editorial engagement that extended for nearly three-and-a-half decades, Davison turned himself into a one-man Orwell industry: his 20-
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Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940
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2007
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21 editions
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Derby Day
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2011
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26 editions
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Kept
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2006
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15 editions
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Orwell
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2003
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15 editions
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On Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Biography
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2019
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9 editions
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The Windsor Faction
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2013
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14 editions
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Ask Alice
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2009
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13 editions
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Orwell: The New Life
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Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature: 1939-51
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2019
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11 editions
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At the Chime of a City Clock
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2010
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7 editions
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“Spring had come finally and after much hesitation, to Lincoln's Inn Fields and there were daffodils out upon the green grass and gilly-flowers blooming in the window-boxes of the ground floor sets. This being Lincoln's Inn, where an air of general severity prevails, they did so with an unconscionable meekness, as if they feared that some legal eminence- Mr Crabbe perhaps- would descend in wrath from his chambers and present them with a writ for unlicensed blossoming or occupying too great a proportion of space.”
― Kept
― Kept
“And so the pair of them went on in the big, draughty house, with the carriages rushing in the square beyond, irritating each other as only two people who are united by blood and detached by temperament can do.”
― Derby Day
― Derby Day
“There was dust everywhere: dust on the cracked and rheumy window; dust over the drugget that made shift as Mr. Guyle's carpet; dust on the framed portraits of my lords Eldon, Coke and other luminaries that hung on the wall; and dust, it may be presumed, in the ventricles of Mr. Guyle's ancient legal heart.”
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| The Book Challenge: Stephanie's 2009 Book Challenge - Finished (almost) | 7 | 274 | Dec 31, 2009 10:13AM | |
| Bright Young Things: Bright Young People (Chapters 6-9) | 1 | 6 | Feb 28, 2011 01:53PM | |
| Bright Young Things: Bright Young People (Chapters 10-13) | 1 | 5 | Feb 28, 2011 01:54PM | |
| The Seasonal Read...: * Summer Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS) | 2614 | 897 | Aug 31, 2011 09:18PM | |
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| Bright Young Things: Bright Young People (Chapters 1-5) | 14 | 36 | Nov 13, 2013 03:11PM | |
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Fall Challenge 2013: Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE POSTS)
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2481 | 642 | Nov 30, 2013 09:01PM | |
| Bright Young Things: The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Whole Book Thread | 23 | 60 | Dec 18, 2013 03:22AM | |
| Bright Young Things: November 2013 - Decca: The letters of Jessica Mitford | 27 | 21 | Jan 09, 2014 12:05PM |
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