Essays

Main description: Essays of George Orwell

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Poems

  • Romance
  • A Little Poem
  • Awake! Young Men of England
  • Kitchener
  • Our Minds are Married, But we are Too Young
  • The Pagan
  • The Lesser Evil
  • Poem From Burma

George Orwells Poems

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Trivia

  • Aldous Huxley was Orwell's French teacher for a term early in his Eton career.
  • His wife Eileen was once a student of J.R.R. Tolkien .
  • Despite being remembered for his radio broadcasts for the BBC during the war no recording of Orwell speaking was known until 2002. The only known film footage of Orwell is from him at Eton playing the Eton Wall Game
  • Orwell had an NKVD file — partly due to his anti-Stalinist Animal Farm .
  • Before settling on "George Orwell", Eric Blair had considered using the pseudonyms "P.S. Burton," "Kenneth Miles," and "H. Lewis Allways".
  • While working on 1984, although suffering from tuberculosis as a result of service in the Spanish Civil War, he regularly used a Royal Enfield 350 .
  • There has been speculation about Orwell's links to the secret services in the UK and some have even gone so far to claim that he was in the employ of MI5 [40] . The evidence for this claim is contested.
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See also

  • Nineteen Eighty-Four , the BBC's famous 1954 television adaptation of Orwell's novel.
  • James Burnham , whose book The Managerial Revolution was a major influence on the development of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
  • Yevgeny Zamyatin , whose novel We , which Orwell reviewed, provided a model for Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Nineteen Eighty-Four v d e
By George Orwell
Characters Winston Smith | Julia | O'Brien | Big Brother | Emmanuel Goldstein
Places Oceania | Eastasia | Eurasia | Airstrip One | Room 101
Classes Inner Party | Outer Party | Proles
Ministries Love | Peace | Plenty | Truth
Concepts Ingsoc | Newspeak | Doublethink | Goodthink | Crimestop
Two plus two | Thoughtcrime | Ownlife | Prolefeed
Miscellaneous Thought Police | Telescreen | Memory hole | The Book
Other media Film | TV programme | Opera | 1985 | Me and the Big Guy


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Books about George Orwell

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