A Study of George Orwell: The Man and His Works

by Christopher Hollis

‘I have sought to influence you by my writings. Judge them, if you will, but what I was—apart from my writings—is my own business.’

‘Looking back on my childhood, after the infant years were over, I do not believe I ever felt love for any mature person except my mother, and even her I did not trust,

people are born with defects of character or of physique—one of one sort and another of another.