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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • writers. George Woodcock died at his home in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on January 28, 1995. Woodcock first came to know George Orwell after they...
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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Bernard Crick (category George Orwell)
    series. In 1974, Crick began working on a biography of George Orwell with the help of Orwell's second wife Sonia Brownell. The hardback edition rights...
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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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  • References to George Orwell's 1949 dystopian political novel Nineteen Eighty-Four themes, concepts and plot elements are also frequent in other works...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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