Orwell

Orwell, a gentle, unworldly sort of man, arrived with just a camp bed, a table, a couple of chairs and a few pots and pans.

As if to prove a point, the student's first show was an adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm.

Although highly political, Orwell was a man who proved himself to be very open-minded and willing to change his political beliefs.

As he prepared to leave hospital Orwell received the letter from his publisher which, in hindsight, would be another nail in his coffin.

Orwell complained that when working as a plongeur he felt as if his back were broken and his head "filled with hot cinders" .

He took the name George Orwell, shortly before its publication.

GEORGE ORWELL wrote of the Ministry of Truth (in his novel, "1984" ) that it was " startlingly different from any other object in sight" .

Animal Farm was one of Orwell's finest works, full of wit and fantasy and admirably written.

The typing of the fair copy of "The Last Man in Europe" became another dimension of Orwell's battle with his book.

Orwell was thus brought up in an atmosphere of impoverished snobbery.

Orwell's creative life had already benefited from his association with the Observer in the writing of Animal Farm.

Like Orwell, Modi is a plongeur, a washer-upper in a big restaurant and he works six days a week, 12 hours a day cleaning pots and pans.

She's like the old college friend of mine who venerated George Orwell and was crushed to learn of his idol's often shabby romantic life.

The kind of mines that inspired Orwell, Zola and Sinclair can still be found the globe over, from Appalachia to the coalfields of China.

In any case, Orwell didn't live to see the long-range social impact of his work.

Orwell's first socialist book was an original and unorthodox political treatise entitled The Road to Wigan Pier (1937).

Orwell is, in a sense, an undercover agent, an anthropologist who has gone native to better observe his subjects in their natural habitat.

When the Soviet Union existed, it was thought to be the place where the imaginary world of George Orwell's 1984 had come to life.

George Orwell knew about the power of language before the age of television and the internet enhanced it exponentially.

Orwell was describing something that has become one of the world's neglected scourges: the bad diet of the poor.

Orwell claimed that it is the obligation of writers to fight against social injustice, oppression and the power of totalitarian regimes.

The evil of poverty, wrote Orwell, is not so much that it makes a man suffer as that it rots him physically and spiritually.

The second part reviews Orwell's long journey from an imperial police man in Burma to a fighter against totalitarianism.

Orwell had fought in the Spanish civil war; his disillusion with that cause is chronicled in "Homage to Catalonia" .

Occupation is the most trusted guide to class, but changes in the labour market have made that harder to read than when Orwell was writing.

George Orwell was a celebrated novelist and thinker in Britain in the 20th century and a socialist.

His 1944 novel, Animal Farm, was a pointed attack against the Soviet system, which Orwell believed had betrayed socialism's true spirit.

"Gandhi's teachings cannot be squared with the belief that Man is the measure of all things, " Orwell warned, correctly.

And he evokes with uncomfortable clarity the self-imposed poverty and discomfort of the Orwell household.

Words are important. Orwell argues that language should be "an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing thought. "

It is one thing to read George Orwell and Franz Kafka, it is quite another to live their texts.

Both thought that decency (a favourite word of Orwell's) was to be found elsewhere.

By now Orwell had left Jura and checked into a TB sanitorium high in the Cotswolds.

The secrecy that's attached to poverty is one of the first things that struck Orwell.

Emma Larkin is the nom de plume of an American living in Bangkok who wrote an earlier book about George Orwell's links with the country.

The last part describes Orwell's limitations as a political writer.

During the war, Orwell began contributing a "London Letter" to Partisan Review.

This is one of Orwell's exceedingly rare references to the theme of his book.

Mr. Orwell told Shirley to her face that he didn't agree with her.

"A certain phraseology is obligatory, " said George Orwell, "if one wants to name things without calling up mental images of them. "

Nineteen Eight-Four is Orwell's representative allegorical work and is regarded as one of the three greatest anti-utopian works.

On the first weekend in June, residents in one of China's richest cities were subjected to an Orwellian charade.

Orwell, who worked in them in his tramp period, considered them purveyors of "sham luxury. "

Big Brother was, of course, created by George Orwell for his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Perhaps vanity has something to do with it: unlike other canonical writers, Orwell was a working hack.

This classic tale of an animal revolution gone rogue is George Orwell's allegorical take on Stalinism.

The question is why neither Orwell's nor Huxley's nightmares have come to life.

1984 by George Orwell -- Many of Orwell's predictions of postmodern life have come true, though some are a couple of decades late.

The novel has sold out at many shops, and its success is spilling over to sales of music and Orwell's classic.

Clift-on Suspension Bridge, the old Severn Bridge, the Orwell Bridge: they have an unquenchable optimism, a soaring of the human spirit.

As Orwell said, "There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you. "

Here Orwell's implicit analogy of economic competition to a contest breaks down.

That's good. Alright, Mike, in Orwell, Vermont, thanks so much.

Initially, Astor offered it to Orwell for a holiday.

Once again Astor stepped in to monitor his friend's treatment but Orwell's specialist was privately pessimistic.

In "Curfewed Night" he has made his own valuable contribution to Orwell's mission: making political writing an art.

George Orwell. Optimism is an intellectual choice.

He spent his life in pursuit of Plato's Problem and Orwell's Problem, which are adverse but interrelated.

Well, the empire has gone, but the cold little island is not as diminished as Orwell predicted.

Jack London and George Orwell both wrote of these workingmen's hostels.

He who controls the past controls the future, wrote George Orwell, and as the author of 1984, he would know better than most.

I've always thought that George Orwell's original model for the repressive world of Nineteen Eighty-Four was his horrible prep school.

Indeed , compared with some smart systems, the ubiquitous telescreen monitoring device in George Orwell's novel "1984" seems a plaything .

Animal Farm. George Orwell. Mutinous farm animals run off their to establish a livestock utopia .

By raising segregation and racial persecution to the ethical level of law, it puts into practice the antinomian rules of Orwell's world.

Orwell had worked for David Astor's Observer since 1942, first as a book reviewer and later as a correspondent.

In today's China, like in Orwell's Animal Farm, some animals are more equal than others.

From the spring of 1947 to his death in 1950 Orwell would re-enact every aspect of this struggle in the most painful way imaginable.

Orwell's health was deteriorating, the "unbelievably bad" manuscript needed retyping, and the December deadline was looming.

Adam Stock, an Orwell scholar at Newcastle University who did his PhD on mid-20th-century dystopian fiction and political thought, says.

This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.

First though, he defines the language beginning with how Orwell characterized political speech already explained above.

For Orwell, writing in the 1940s, the language of politics was the most debased.

Orwell praised Waugh publicly for his moral courage.

Like every writer, Orwell's work stems from personal experience, prejudice, and pain.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. " - George Orwell"

IN GEORGE ORWELL'S "Animal Farm" the mighty cart-horse, Boxer, inspires the other animals with his heroic cry of "I will work harder" .

The typescript of George Orwell's latest novel reached London in mid December, as promised.

Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on 25 June 1903 in eastern India, the son of a British colonial civil servant.

In 1944 Orwell finished Animal Farm , a political fable based on the story of the Russian Revolution and its betrayal by Joseph Stalin.

Bunting, a 35-year-old Brooklyn writer, found on the website a teacher's request for a copy of George Orwell's 1984.

Late in 1936, Orwell travelled to Spain to fight for the Republicans against Franco's Nationalists.

Orwell writes this from the sanatorium at Preston Hall, Aylesford, Kent.

But, as Orwell and Mr Havel realised, these vapid expressions are not harmless.

Boxer is a fictional character, a horse, present in George Orwell's Animal Farm.

George Orwell Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

George Orwell's future-fascist classic Nineteen Eighty-Four was really about 1948, although it was published in 1949.

In the early 1960s, I read the novel 1984 by George Orwell, which made famous the phrase "Big Brother is watching you. "

Orwell's best known novels are 1984 and Animal Farm, both condemnations of totalitarian government.

Orwell disparaged these borrowings too.

"SPORT" , as George Orwell noted more than 60 years ago, "is an unfailing cause of ill-will. "

The final way in which Orwell influences today's writers is the hardest to describe, but to my mind the most important.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. -- George Orwell.

By the end of October Orwell believed he was done.

Nor are we yet in sight of George Orwell's brilliantly imagined tyranny.

'And at that moment I thought of George Orwell's novel Animal Farm where, truly, some are more equal than others. '

Orwell used Calor gas to cook and to heat water. Storm lanterns burned paraffin.

What was it that Orwell said?

The members-only website was founded in 2008 and named after George Orwell's dystopian novel.

But, even so, George Orwell's over-quoted aphorism that "serious sport" is "war minus the shooting" misses the most important point.

By now Orwell's health was deteriorating and he died of tuberculosis on 21 January 1950.

What impression of Orwell will emerge?

In 1985, George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first became widely available to Chinese readers.

Published in 1949, Nineteen Eighty-Four has been esteemed as Orwell's masterpiece.

George Orwell's "1984, " published in 1948, stoked fears about totalitarianism.

For example, explains Orwell, say a man in a hooded sweatshirt suddenly smashes a window.

Crudely put, George Orwell is anyone's bitch.

Serious sport, according to George Orwell, is war minus the shooting.

He likes Orwell but prefers Jack London.

In 2009 Mr Gove compared China to the fictional totalitarian state in George Orwell's "1984" .

George Orwell has already gone to the trouble of writing 1984. All you have to do is read it.

The novel Animal Farm by Orwell George.

Are you ready to live in Orwell's nightmare world of Big Brother and mind control slavery?

This was what brought to Barcelona, centre of the people's resistance, volunteers such as Orwell.

As George Orwell put it, "The trouble with competitions is that somebody wins them. "

He uses this phrase in both My Country Left or Right (1940) and The Lion and the Unicorn (1940). Both published in George Orwell, 1968.

Orwell made perpetual war the tyrant's best tool in 1984.

Between 1941 and 1943, Orwell worked on propaganda for the BBC.

And who can argue with Orwell?

Orwell put his finger on why.

Forget Orwell.

What will you see in the Orwell diaries?

" An homage to George Orwell's " 1984?

I think of Orwell's classic, 1984, when I ponder these issues.

This is hardly a recent problem, and as George Orwell wrote in his 1946 essay, Politics and the English Language, the condition is curable.

But at least the superorganism that seems to be emerging, though in some ways demanding, isn't the totalitarian monster that Orwell feared;

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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. ----George Orwell