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Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell.His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both authoritarian communism and fascism), and support of democratic socialism.
In Orwell's novel "1984" — which was published in 1949 — the English author outlines. There may be no one who can say "I told you so" better than George Orwell, who was born today, June 25th ...
The Orwell Archive at University College London contains undated notes about ideas that evolved into Nineteen Eighty-Four.The notebooks have been deemed "unlikely to have been completed later than January 1944", and "there is a strong suspicion that some of the material in them dates back to the early part of the war".
The Great Depression: America, 1929–1941 (ISBN 978-0-8129-2327-8) is a 1984 history of the Great Depression by acclaimed historian Robert S. McElvaine. In this interpretive history, McElvaine discusses the causes and the results of the worst depression in American history, covering the time from 1929 to 1941.
April 4 – The narrative of George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four begins and causes widespread discussion. G. K. Chesterton's The Napoleon of Notting Hill is also set in this year; and Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 (いちきゅうはちよん, Ichi-Kyū-Hachi-Yon, 2009–2010) is set in a parallel version of it.
Several months later, he adapted the lecture into an essay and published it in the December 1989 issue of Vanity Fair. [4] The following year, Random House published Styron's essay as a full-length memoir titled Darkness Visible , which included additional material that had been excluded from the original work due to limited space in Vanity Fair .
Essay published in Tribune No. 462 (2 November 1945) p. 15. Completed 26 October 1945. Abridged version published in World Digest (February 1946) pp. 79–80. "Good Travellers" 2 December 1939 — Published in Time and Tide "A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray" 26 April 1946: SaN, SaE, OR, CEJL IV, EL, ELp, FUF, STCM: Published in Tribune: The ...
Most of the essays originally appeared in The Ayn Rand Letter. [2] Bobbs-Merrill published the hardcover edition in September 1982, followed by a trade paperback edition in September 1984. [3] New American Library published it as a mass market paperback in November 1984. The New American Library edition was promoted as volume one of the "Ayn ...