Download or read book The Unknown Orwell and Orwell: The Transformation written by Peter Stansky and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, these two essential books on George Orwell have been brought together under one cover. The Unknown Orwell describes the first thirty years of Orwell's life—his childhood, the years at Eton and in Burma, and the struggles to become a writer. Orwell: The Transformation carries us forward into the crucial years 1933 to 1937 in which Eric Blair, minor novelist, became George Orwell, a powerful writer with a view, a mission, and a message.