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　　One climbed to the very top of the social ladder, the other

chose to live among tramps. One was a celebrity at twenty-three,

the other virtually unknown until his dying days. One was

right-wing and religious, the other a socialist and an atheist.

Yet, as this ingenious and important new book reveals, at the heart

of their lives and writing, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell were

essentially the same man. Orwell is best known for "Animal Farm"

and "1984," Waugh for "Brideshead Revisited" and comic novels like

"Scoop" and "Vile Bodies." How　　ever different they may seem, these

two towering figures of twentieth-century literature are linked for

the first time in this engaging and unconventional biography, which

goes beyond the story of their amazing lives to reach the core of

their beliefs-a shared vision that was startlingly prescient about

our own troubled times. Both Waugh and Orwell were born in 1903,

into the same comfortable stratum of England's class-obsessed

society. But at first glance they seem to have lived opposite

lives. Waugh married into the high aristocracy, writing hilarious

novels that captured the amoral time between the wars. He converted

to Catholicism after his wife's infidelity and their divorce.

Orwell married a moneyless student of Tolkien's who followed him to

Barcelona, where he fought in the Spanish Civil War. She saved his

life there-twice-but her own fate was tragic. Waugh and Orwell

would meet only once, as the latter lay dying of tuberculosis, yet

as "The Same Man" brilliantly shows, in their life and work both

writers rebelled against a modern world run by a privileged,

sometimes brutal, few. Orwell and Waugh were almost alone among

their peers in seeing what the future-our time-would bring, and

they dedicated their lives to warning us against what was coming: a

world of material wealth but few values, an existence without

tradition or community or common purpose, where lives are measured

in dollars, not sense. They explained why, despite prosperity, so

many people feel that our society is headed in the wrong direction.

David Lebedoff believes that we need both Orwell and Waugh now more

than ever. Unique in its insights and filled with vivid scenes of

these two fascinating men and their tumultuous times, "The Same

Man" is an amazing story and an original work of literary

biography.

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David Lebedoff is the award-winning author of five books, including Cleaning Up, about the Exxon Valdez case, and The Uncivil War: How a New Elite Is Destroying Our Democracy. Lebedoff is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the Harvard Law School. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three children.

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One climbed to the very top of the social ladder, the other chose to live among tramps. One was a celebrity at twenty-three, the other virtually unknown until his dying days. One was right-wing and religious, the other a socialist and an atheist. Yet, as this ingenious and important new book reveals, at the heart of their lives and writing, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell were essentially the same man.

Orwell is best known for Animal Farm and 1984 , Waugh for Brideshead Revisited and comic novels like Scoop and Vile Bodies . However different they may seem, these two towering figures of twentieth-century literature are linked for the first time in this engaging and unconventional biography, which goes beyond the story of their amazing lives to reach the core of their beliefs–a shared vision that was startlingly prescient about our own troubled times.

Both Waugh and Orwell were born in 1903, into the same comfortable stratum of England’s class-obsessed society. But at first glance they seem to have lived opposite lives. Waugh married into the high aristocracy, writing hilarious novels that captured the amoral time between the wars. He converted to Catholicism after his wife’s infidelity and their divorce. Orwell married a moneyless student of Tolkien’s who followed him to Barcelona, where he fought in the Spanish Civil War. She saved his life there–twice–but her own fate was tragic.

Waugh and Orwell would meet only once, as the latter lay dying of tuberculosis, yet as The Same Man brilliantly shows, in their life and work both writers rebelled against a modern world run by a privileged, sometimes brutal, few. Orwell and Waugh were almost alone among their peers in seeing what the future–our time–would bring, and they dedicated their lives to warning us against what was coming: a world of material wealth but few values, an existence without tradition or community or common purpose, where lives are measured in dollars, not sense. They explained why, despite prosperity, so many people feel that our society is headed in the wrong direction. David Lebedoff believes that we need both Orwell and Waugh now more than ever.

Unique in its insights and filled with vivid scenes of these two fascinating men and their tumultuous times, The Same Man is an amazing story and an original work of literary biography.