

The Last Man in Europe
Author: Dennis Glover
Narrator: Simon Mattacks
Unabridged: 7 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 05/23/2019
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Dennis Glover
Narrator: Simon Mattacks
Unabridged: 7 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 05/23/2019
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Dennis Glover earned his PhD in history from King’s College, Cambridge. He has worked for two decades as an academic, newspaper columnist, political adviser, and speechwriter. He is the author of The Art of Great Speeches, Orwell’s Australia, and The Economy is Not a Society. The Last Man in Europe is his first novel.
The Problem with Bio-Fiction Jura, April 1947. It was his third day back on the island but the first he had managed to get out of bed. He knew what he had to do; transfer to paper the ceaseless, grinding monologue that had been working through his mind since… when? His days at the BBC? The betraya......more
Well researched, however where do factual events end and fictional interpretation begin? Dennis Glover takes a high risk approach to exploring George Orwell's life, rather than adopt the straight biographical approach of, for example, D.J. Taylor's 'Orwell', he chose to write a novel about the key m......more
I am a huge fan of Orwell, and am a high school English teacher who has studied 1984 with many classes, and so my judgement is harsher than that of others. Above all, I found this novel disappointingly dull. The writing is nice, but not exciting, and the story didn't reveal anything new. Each scatte......more
This is more than a fictionalised biographical novel. It delves into the writing process, political history, medical treatment. Of course, it traces parallels between Orwell’s experiences and those of Winston in 1984. I don’t think I am up to re-reading the horror that is 1984; this novel acts enoug......more