The difficult side of JRR Tolkien
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The great literary love of DJ Taylor’s life is George Orwell. The novelist and critic first discovered him when he was 13 and has remained true to him ever since. In Taylor’s magisterial 2023 biography Orwell: The New Life, he proclaims his subject “a writer to whom no other 20th-century titan comes close.”
But Orwell wasn’t Taylor’s first literary love. Before he picked A Clergyman’s Daughter off his parents’ bookshelves he was besotted by another 20th-century titan, one whose cultural impact
But Orwell wasn’t Taylor’s first literary love. Before he picked A Clergyman’s Daughter off his parents’ bookshelves he was besotted by another 20th-century titan, one whose cultural impact
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