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Aldous Huxley full interview 1958: The Problems of Survival and Freedom in America; Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery "Aldous Huxley: The Gravity of Light", a film essay by Oliver Hockenhull; Aldous Huxley at IMDb; BBC discussion programme In our time: "Brave New World". Huxley and the novel. 9 April 2009. (Audio, 45 minutes)
George Orwell claimed that Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) must be partly derived from We. [28] However, in a letter to Christopher Collins in 1962, Huxley says that he wrote Brave New World as a reaction to H. G. Wells's utopias long before he had heard of We. [29]
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".
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1932. [4] 1984 by George Orwell, 1949. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. [5] Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 1953. [6] On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 1957. Promoted a spirit of adventure ...
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 ...
Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 – A Personal Choice is an essay by British writer Anthony Burgess, published by Allison & Busby in 1984. It covers a 44-year span between 1939 and 1983. Burgess was a prolific reader, in his early career reviewing more than 350 novels in just over two years for The Yorkshire Post. In the ...
1984, may just be the next read for Madeline Argy’s book club on her Pretty Lonesome podcast.. While discussing the differing literature education requirements by country, Argy brought up the ...
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.