Essays
Main description: Essays of George Orwell
- A Nice Cup of Tea (1946 ) — [11]
- "A Hanging " (1931 ) — [12]
- "Shooting an Elephant " (1936 ) — [13]
- "Charles Dickens " (1939 ) — [14]
- "Boys' Weeklies " (1940 ) — [15]
- "Inside the Whale " (1940 ) — [16]
- "The Lion and The Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius " (1941 ) — [17]
- "Wells, Hitler and the World State " (1941 ) — [18]
- "The Art of Donald McGill " (1941 ) — [19]
- "Looking Back on the Spanish War " (1943 ) — [20]
- "W. B. Yeats " (1943 ) — [21]
- "Benefit of Clergy: Some notes on Salvador Dali " (1944 ) — [22]
- "Arthur Koestler " (1944 ) — [23]
- "Notes on Nationalism " (1945 ) — [24]
- "How the Poor Die " (1946 ) — [25]
- "Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels " (1946 ) — [26]
- "Politics and the English Language " (1946 ) — [27]
- "Second Thoughts on James Burnham " (1946 ) — [28]
- "Decline of the English Murder " (1946 ) — [29]
- "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad " (1946 ) — [30]
- "A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray " (1946 ) — [31]
- "In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse " (1946 ) — [32]
- "Why I Write " (1946 ) — [33]
- "The Prevention of Literature " (1946 ) — [34]
- "Such, Such Were the Joys " (1946 ) — [35]
- "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool " (1947 ) — [36]
- "Reflections on Gandhi " (1949 ) — [37]
- "Bookshop Memories " (1936 ) — [38]
- "The Moon Under Water " (1946 ) — [39]
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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
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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 | |
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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
- Bowker, Gordon . George Orwell. Little Brown. 2003. ISBN 0316861154
- Caute, David. Dr. Orwell and Mr. Blair, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0297814389
- Crick, Bernard . George Orwell: A Life. Penguin. 1982. ISBN 0140058567
- Flynn, Nigel. George Orwell. The Rourke Corporation, Inc. 1990. ISBN 086593018X
- Hitchens, Christopher . Why Orwell Matters. Basic Books. 2003. ISBN 0465030491
- Hollis, Christopher. A Study of George Orwell: The Man and His Works. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co. 1956. ASIN: B000ANO242.
- Larkin, Emma. Finding George Orwell in Burma. Penguin. 2005. ISBN 1594200521
- Meyers, Jeffery. Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation. W.W.Norton. 2000. ISBN 0393322637
- Newsinger, John . Orwell's Politics. Macmillan. 1999. ISBN 0-333-68287-4
- Shelden, Michael . Orwell: The Authorized Biography. HarperCollins. 1991. ISBN 0060167092
- Smith, D. & Mosher, M. Orwell for Beginners. 1984. London: Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative.
- Taylor, D. J. Orwell: The Life. Henry Holt and Company. 2003. ISBN 0-8050-7473-2
- West, W. J. The Larger Evils. Edinburgh: Canongate Press. 1992. ISBN 0-86241-382-6 (Nineteen Eighty-Four – The truth behind the satire.)
- West, W. J. (ed.) George Orwell: The Lost Writings. New York: Arbor House. 1984. ISBN 0877957452
- Williams, Raymond , Orwell, Fontana/Collins, 1971
- Woodcock, George . The Crystal Spirit. Little Brown. 1966. ISBN 1551642689
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External links
Wikiquote
has a collection of quotations related to:
- George Orwell Web Source - Essays, books, articles Simple single page listing of Orwell etexts.
- The Chestnut Tree Cafe - George Orwell FAQ
- orwell.ru — Orwell's complete works
- Wikiquote — Quotes from Animal Farm
- "Why I Write" by Orwell
- "Is Bad Writing Necessary?" - An essay comparing Theodor Adorno and George Orwell's lives and writing styles. In Lingua Franca , (December/January 2000).
- Charles' George Orwell Links
- The Complete Works of George Orwell
- Films based on Orwell's novels from Internet Movie Database
- Newspeak Dictionary
- The George Orwell of the Left Books, and links to sites & articles in Scandinavian & English. (Tidsskriftcentret.dk).
- Essay and reflection on the novel 1984 comparing its fictional elements to modern political events and discourse.]
- Students for an Orwellian Society
- UK National Archives Reveal George Orwell watched by MI5