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HERE IS A WRITER WHOSE expressed wish was that there was to be no biography, yet there are now half a dozen. An Orwell Society was founded in 2011 and has since launched a biannual academic journal, George Orwell Studies. The revelation in 2013 by Edward Snowden, National Security Agency contractor and whistleblower, of the scale of the global surveillance systems operated by the intelligence agencies of the USA and United Kingdom has led to their description as“Orwellian”—in reference to the controlling intrusion by the state detailed so nightmarishly in 1984. Online sales of the novel mushroomed by 5 , 800 percent within a week of Snowden’s action. The inanities, unfortunately usually malign, of the Trump presidency, also have one reaching for Orwell: what could be more Orwellian than the concept of“alternative facts”? Kellyanne Conway’s coinage caused 1984 to jump to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list, an unprecedented achievement for a book first published sixtyeight years previously. As a friend informs me,“Orwell’snow hot in the States, you know.”  \nConcurrently, my reading has led me to appreciate how difficult the man could be in person. V. S. Pritchett, shortstory writer and critic, who memorably called him “the wintry conscience of a generation,” not only described him as “complex, straying, and contradictory” but seems to have regarded him as an “eccentric … crank, and …thorn in the flesh,” commenting that to become his friend you first had to undergo “the usual quarrel.” Herbert Read rightly  \nconsidered that he had raised journalism to the status of literature and “felt nearer to him than to any other English writer of our time,” yet was all the same irritated by “some aspects of his personality,” including “his proletarian pose in dress.” Read might also have mentioned the ostentatious drinking of tea from his saucer, slurping it noisily, one of the habits that greatly irked John Morris, a wartime colleague at the BBC Eastern Service.  \nMorris, a conventional man who disliked Orwell, surprises by observing:  \nAlthough he wrote so well, he was a poor and halting speaker; even in private conversation he expressed himself badly and would often fumble for the right word. His weekly broadcast talks were beautifully written, but he delivered them in a dull and monotonous voice. I was often with him in the studio and it was painful to hear such good material wasted:  \nlike many other brilliant writers, he never really  \nunderstood the subtle differences between the written and the spoken word, or, if he did, he could not be bothered with them.  \nAlthough Orwell remains controversial in many ways, thereis extensive recognition that his work was indeed“beautifully written,” even that he is one of the masters of English prose.  \nAny writer, I am convinced, writes as well as they read. Kristian Williams knows his Orwell inside out—there is nothing pertinent with which he does not appear familiar—and so the prose of this exceptional book, which I am privileged to introduce, is exquisitely straightforward. Attention to the quality of writing is not to be dismissed as a mere artistic or aesthetic fad, irrelevant to the major issues of the day, to the fundamental concerns of life. On the contrary, Kristian and myself, and Orwell, too, passionately  \nbelieve in the writer’s responsibility to make accessible to the ordinary intelligent reader ideas and analysis however strange or difficult.  \nIt is the duty of the communicator to communicate, not torevel in obscurantist, even if supposedly technical, language that only “experts” pretend to understand. As Kristian remarks in his introduction:  \nOrwell is not renowned as a deep thinker, partly because deep thinking has become confused with difficult writing—that is to say, with writing that is ‐ difficult to read. 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