critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place, the River Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (redirect from 1984 george orwell)
Blair, who wrote under the pen name George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his...
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The bibliography of George Orwell includes journalism, essays, novels, and non-fiction books written by the British writer Eric Blair (1903–1950), either...
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entry which comes closest to George Orwell's own ambition to "make political writing into an art". In 2014, the Youth Orwell Prize was launched, targeted...
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1918 – 11 December 1980), better known as Sonia Orwell, was the second wife of writer George Orwell. Sonia is believed to be the model for Julia, the...
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Animal Farm (category Novels by George Orwell)
is a satirical allegorical novella, in the form of a beast fable, by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. It tells the story of...
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In 1949, shortly before he died, the English author George Orwell prepared a list of notable writers and other people he considered to be unsuitable as...
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Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four) (redirect from Big Brother (Orwell))
Big Brother is a character and symbol in George Orwell's dystopian 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is ostensibly the leader of Oceania, a totalitarian...
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A statue of George Orwell by the British sculptor Martin Jennings was unveiled on 7 November 2017 outside Broadcasting House, the headquarters of the...
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Eileen Blair (redirect from Eileen Orwell)
O'Shaughnessy, 25 September 1905 – 29 March 1945) was the first wife of George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair). During World War II, she worked for the Censorship...
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The NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language (the Orwell Award for short) is an award given since...
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Homage to Catalonia (category Books by George Orwell)
Homage to Catalonia is a 1938 memoir by English writer George Orwell, in which he accounts his personal experiences and observations while fighting in...
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2 + 2 = 5 (section George Orwell)
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. As a theme and as a subject in the arts, the anti-intellectual slogan 2 + 2 = 5 pre-dates Orwell and has produced literature...
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Emmanuel Goldstein (section George Soros)
In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), by George Orwell, Emmanuel Goldstein is the principal enemy of the state of Oceania. The political...
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Definitions of fascism (section George Orwell)
London: February 19, 1941. Orwell, George. "What is Fascism?". Retrieved 17 February 2017. Orwell, George (25 Mar 2004). Orwell, Sonia; Angus, Ian (eds.). As...
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying (redirect from George Orwell/Keep the Aspidistra Flying)
Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition...
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H. G. Wells (redirect from Wells, Herbert George, B.Sc., Etc.)
lamented by younger authors whom he had influenced. In this connection, George Orwell described Wells as "too sane to understand the modern world", and "since...
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Political geography of Nineteen Eighty-Four (category George Orwell)
In George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the world is divided into three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, who are all...
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In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell, the Two Minutes Hate is the daily period during which members of the Outer and Inner...
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Down and Out in Paris and London (category Books by George Orwell)
Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty...
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national security threats. Orwell was created by German developer Osmotic Studios. The series is named after George Orwell, the author of the dystopian...
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The Road to Wigan Pier (category Books by George Orwell)
The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the English writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociological...
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Richard Blair (patron) (category George Orwell)
author George Orwell. Blair was adopted by Eileen and Eric Blair (George Orwell), and after their deaths, lived with Avril Dunn (née Blair, Orwell's sister...
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changes to the original script. Based on the 1945 novella Animal Farm by George Orwell, the film features narration by Gordon Heath, with the voices of all...
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George Orwell's 1949 dystopian political novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, has been adapted for the cinema, radio, television, theatre, opera and ballet. The...
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Look up Orwell in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orwell may refer to: George Orwell, pen name of English author Eric Arthur Blair (1903–1950), who took...
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counterpart. This novel is often compared as an inversion counterpart to George Orwell's 1984 (1949). In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World at...
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Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism is a fictional book in George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (written in 1949). The fictional...
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by Rupert Wyatt and Serkis. Based on the novella of the same name by George Orwell, the adaptation is currently in production. It will be the novel's third...
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Railway Station, 1906 Henry Bazaar(1906), Motihari Birth palace of George Orwell, Motihari The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi paying homage at the...
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