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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 Front of Your Nose, 1945–1950; The Complete Works of George Orwell is a twenty-volume series, with the first nine being devoted to the non-fiction books and novels and the final eleven volumes entitled: A Kind of Compulsion: 1903–1936; Facing Unpleasant Facts: 1937–1939; A Patriot After All: 1940–1941; All Propaganda Is Lies: 1941–1942
June 25 – George Orwell, English novelist and journalist (died 1950) [6] July 3 – Oliver Stonor, English novelist (died 1987) July 10 – John Wyndham, English science fiction writer (died 1969) [7] September 5 – János Kemény, American-born Transylvanian Hungarian writer (died 1971)
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a British television adaptation of the 1949 novel of the same name by George Orwell, originally broadcast on BBC Television in December 1954. The production proved to be hugely controversial, with questions asked in Parliament and many viewer complaints over its supposed subversive nature and horrific content.
The Orwell Society is a literary society and a UK registered charity. It was founded in 2011 with the aim of promoting the understanding and appreciation of the life and work of George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair 1903–1950). Its patron is Richard Blair, George Orwell's adopted son.
There may be no one who can say "I told you so" better than George Orwell, who was born today, June 25th in 1903. In Orwell's novel "1984" — which was published in 1949 — the English author ...
Searchlight Books was a series of essays published as hardback books, edited by T. R. Fyvel and George Orwell.The series was published by Secker & Warburg. [1] [2]The series was projected for 17 titles, of which ten were published during 1941-42, but bomb damage to Warburg's office and the destruction of his printer's paper stock led to the series being discontinued.
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".