George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism. Orwell... 203 KB (24,983 words) - 08:34, 24 April 2024 |
Nineteen Eighty-Four (redirect from 1984 george orwell) and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his... 130 KB (14,823 words) - 17:52, 25 April 2024 |
1918 – 11 December 1980), better known as Sonia Orwell, was the second wife of writer George Orwell. Sonia is believed to be the model for Julia, the... 10 KB (1,059 words) - 10:02, 5 March 2024 |
In 1949, shortly before he died, the English author George Orwell prepared a list of notable writers and other people he considered to be unsuitable as... 21 KB (2,150 words) - 17:33, 26 March 2024 |
entry which comes closest to George Orwell's own ambition to "make political writing into an art". In 2014, the Youth Orwell Prize was launched, targeted... 65 KB (2,080 words) - 16:06, 3 February 2024 |
A statue of George Orwell by the British sculptor Martin Jennings was unveiled on 7 November 2017 outside Broadcasting House, the headquarters of the... 7 KB (781 words) - 08:35, 24 August 2023 |
2 + 2 = 5 (section George Orwell) Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. As a theme and as a subject in the arts, the anti-intellectual slogan 2 + 2 = 5 pre-dates Orwell and has produced literature... 22 KB (2,514 words) - 22:37, 18 March 2024 |
Animal Farm (category Novels by George Orwell) is a beast fable, in the form of a satirical allegorical novella, by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. It tells the story of... 78 KB (9,192 words) - 04:50, 23 April 2024 |
comedy drama film directed by Diana Ringo. The film is based upon George Orwell's 1949 novel of the same name as well as Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1920–1921... 10 KB (744 words) - 21:46, 9 March 2024 |
Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four) (redirect from Big Brother (Orwell)) Big Brother is a character and symbol in George Orwell's dystopian 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is ostensibly the leader of Oceania, a totalitarian... 16 KB (1,929 words) - 03:27, 15 April 2024 |
Eileen Blair (redirect from Eileen Orwell) O'Shaughnessy, 25 September 1905 – 29 March 1945) was the first wife of George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair). During World War II, she worked for the Censorship... 16 KB (1,947 words) - 04:20, 17 February 2024 |
The NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language (the Orwell Award for short) is an award given since... 8 KB (1,080 words) - 17:44, 13 February 2024 |
Homage to Catalonia (category Books by George Orwell) Homage to Catalonia is a 1938 memoir by English writer George Orwell, in which he accounts his personal experiences and observations while fighting in... 63 KB (7,708 words) - 18:21, 26 April 2024 |
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (redirect from George Orwell/Keep the Aspidistra Flying) Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic... 25 KB (3,443 words) - 13:32, 27 March 2024 |
Richard Blair (patron) (category George Orwell) author George Orwell. Blair was adopted by Eileen and Eric Blair (George Orwell), and after their deaths, lived with Avril Dunn (née Blair, Orwell's sister... 11 KB (963 words) - 11:15, 10 April 2024 |
Emmanuel Goldstein (section George Soros) In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (published in 1949), by George Orwell, Emmanuel Goldstein is the principal enemy of the state of Oceania.... 21 KB (2,364 words) - 17:30, 18 April 2024 |
George Orwell's 1949 dystopian political novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, has been adapted for the cinema, radio, television, theatre, opera and ballet. The... 23 KB (2,205 words) - 04:37, 26 April 2024 |
H. G. Wells (redirect from Wells, Herbert George, B.Sc., Etc.) lamented by younger authors whom he had influenced. In this connection, George Orwell described Wells as "too sane to understand the modern world", and "since... 125 KB (13,788 words) - 12:58, 21 April 2024 |
Political geography of Nineteen Eighty-Four (category George Orwell) In George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the world is divided into three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, who are all... 30 KB (3,647 words) - 07:47, 20 April 2024 |
by George Orwell, Maurice Denham provides the voice for all the animals in the film. The rights for a film adaptation were purchased from Orwell's widow... 20 KB (2,219 words) - 15:04, 10 April 2024 |
counterpart. This novel is often compared as an inversion counterpart to George Orwell's 1984 (1949). In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World at... 73 KB (9,172 words) - 17:10, 8 April 2024 |
Down and Out in Paris and London (category Books by George Orwell) Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty... 27 KB (3,798 words) - 06:40, 27 April 2024 |
References to George Orwell's 1949 dystopian political novel Nineteen Eighty-Four themes, concepts and plot elements are also frequent in other works... 50 KB (7,178 words) - 21:15, 14 March 2024 |
The Road to Wigan Pier (category Books by George Orwell) The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the English writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociological... 26 KB (3,715 words) - 23:52, 13 October 2023 |
Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism is a fictional book in George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (written in 1949). The fictional... 19 KB (2,506 words) - 18:54, 24 March 2024 |
In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell, the Two Minutes Hate is the daily period during which members of the Outer and Inner... 6 KB (725 words) - 03:37, 15 April 2024 |
Look up Orwell in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Orwell may refer to: George Orwell, pen name of English author Eric Arthur Blair (1903–1950), who took... 2 KB (246 words) - 01:31, 19 December 2023 |
Railway Station, 1906 Henry Bazaar(1906), Motihari Birth palace of George Orwell, Motihari The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi paying homage at the... 16 KB (1,148 words) - 05:06, 9 March 2024 |
Shooting an Elephant (category Essays by George Orwell) "Shooting an Elephant" is an essay by British writer George Orwell, first published in the literary magazine New Writing in late 1936 and broadcast by... 17 KB (2,096 words) - 13:23, 21 April 2024 |