{"product_id":"our-job-is-to-make-life-worth-living","title":"Our Job Is To Make Life Worth Living","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVolume 20 of \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Works of George Orwell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 'Reflections on Gandhi', published in January 1949, in which he modified the strictures made in a previous review, Orwell wrote, 'our job is to make life worth living on this earth, which is the only earth we have'. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile a patient at the Cotswold Sanatorium, Cranham, he read the proofs of \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e and wrote five reviews. He began, but did not finish, an article on Evelyn Waugh, made notes for an essay on Conrad, and sketched out a long short-story, 'A Smoking-Room Story'. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume includes many unpublished letters, Warburg's report on his visit to Cranham, a clarification of Orwell's public statement on \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e, and a detailed examination, with all the relevant correspondence, of Orwell's relationship with the Information Research Department of the Foreign Office. Two of the last items are a cheerful letter from Nancy Parratt, one of his BBC secretaries, and a letter from Sonia Orwell (whom Orwell had married a few weeks after he was transferred to University College Hospital, London). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume concludes with a series of appendices. These print all work in progress; a statement of Orwell's accounts; a list of the 144 books he read in 1949; Orwell's will and final instructions for his literary executors; the names in his address book; those he considered cryptos or fellow-travellers; a list of books he owned and another of his pamphlet collection; an unpublished memoir by Miranda wood; and a note of what happened after Orwell's death on 21 January 1950.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54221743358296,"sku":"9780436210099","price":43.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780436210099_3f95ca9c-1e4a-4477-971b-39e5da6f76c2.jpg?v=1764648046","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/our-job-is-to-make-life-worth-living","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}