Download e-book for kindle: The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War by David Lebedoff

One climbed to the very most sensible of the social ladder, the opposite selected to reside between tramps. One used to be a star at twenty-three, the opposite almost unknown till his death days. One used to be right-wing and spiritual, the opposite a socialist and an atheist. but, as this creative and critical new e-book unearths, on the center in their lives and writing, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell have been primarily a similar guy.

Orwell is healthier identified for Animal Farm and 1984, Waugh for Brideshead Revisited and comedian novels like Scoop and Vile Bodies. even though various they might appear, those towering figures of twentieth-century literature are associated for the 1st time during this enticing and unconventional biography, which works past the tale in their outstanding lives to arrive the center in their beliefs–a shared imaginative and prescient that was once startlingly prescient approximately our personal bothered times.

Both Waugh and Orwell have been born in 1903, into an identical cozy stratum of England’s class-obsessed society. yet initially look they appear to have lived contrary lives. Waugh married into the excessive aristocracy, writing hilarious novels that captured the amoral time among the wars. He switched over to Catholicism after his wife’s infidelity and their divorce. Orwell married a moneyless pupil of Tolkien’s who him to Barcelona, the place he fought within the Spanish Civil conflict. She kept his existence there–twice–but her personal destiny was once tragic.

Waugh and Orwell might meet just once, because the latter lay loss of life of tuberculosis, but as The similar Man brilliantly indicates, of their existence and paintings either writers rebelled opposed to a latest international run by way of a privileged, occasionally brutal, few. Orwell and Waugh have been nearly by myself between their friends in seeing what the future–our time–would convey, they usually committed their lives to caution us opposed to what was once coming: a global of fabric wealth yet few values, an lifestyles with out culture or neighborhood or universal goal, the place lives are measured in funds, no longer experience. They defined why, regardless of prosperity, such a lot of humans suppose that our society is headed within the improper path. David Lebedoff believes that we'd like either Orwell and Waugh now greater than ever.

Unique in its insights and jam-packed with brilliant scenes of those attention-grabbing males and their tumultuous occasions, The related Man is an awesome tale and an unique paintings of literary biography.

From the Hardcover edition.