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The Orwell diaries

This review of the new edition of George Orwell’s diaries, edited by Peter Davison, appears in the current issue of the Literary Review.
Diaries
By George Orwell
(Edited by Peter Davison)
(Harvill Secker 520pp £20)
When he reviewed Nineteen Eighty-Four for the New Statesman, V S Pritchett identified among the sources of George Orwell’s ‘material’ not just the depredations of [...]