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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.
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State Office Term Start Term End Notes Ref John Bernard: MN-08: Minnesota: House of Representatives: January 3, 1937: January 3, 1939: ran as Farmer–Labor Party candidate, future Communist [1] [2] Hugh De Lacy: WA-01: Washington: House of Representatives: January 3, 1945: January 3, 1947: ran as Democratic Party candidate, but not open ...
One of Orwell's biographers, Bernard Crick, thought there were 86 names in the list and that some of the names were written in the hand of Koestler, who also co-operated with the IRD in producing anti-Communist propaganda. [13] Orwell was an ex-colonial policeman in Burma and, according to Timothy Garton Ash, he liked making lists: 'In a ...
George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, whose wartime BBC career influenced his creation of Oceania. What is known of the society, politics and economics of Oceania, and its rivals, comes from the in-universe book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein, a literary device Orwell uses to connect the past and present of 1984. [1]
The claim: Author George Orwell said 'A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices'
In Orwell's novel "1984" — which was published in 1949 — the English author outlines ... In Orwell's "1984," the Party that rules the nation of Oceania is in a constant state of war with ...
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".