George Orwell

George Orwell: Encyclopedia II - George Orwell - Legacy

George Orwell - Work. During most of his career, Orwell was best known for his journalism, in essays, reviews, columns in newspapers and magazines and in his books of reportage: Down and Out in Paris and London (describing a period of poverty in these cities), The Road to Wigan Pier (describing the living conditions of poor miners in northern England) and Homage to Catalonia (describing his experiences during the Spanish Civil War). According to Newsweek, Orwell "was the finest of his day and the foremost archit ...

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George Orwell: Encyclopedia - Vaporize

Main link: Evaporation Use of the word as dying: In the First World War, the term became used by French military aviators to denote what could happen were the fuel tanks of one's aircraft to explode in combat. Later George Orwell used it as an elaboration of the Communist use of the financial term liquidate to mean a political murder. Other related archivesEvaporation, George Orwell, liquidate

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George Orwell: Encyclopedia - We novel

We (Мы, 1920; English translation 1924) is a novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin. The title is the Russian first person plural pronoun, transliterated phonetically as "Mwee". It was written in response to the author's personal experiences with the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, as well as his life in the Newcastle suburb of Jesmond, and work in the Tyne shipyards (1916-17), where he observed the rationalisation of labour on a large scale. We novel - History and Influence. The novel was t ...

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George Orwell: Encyclopedia - Vyacheslav Molotov

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (Russian: Вячесла́в Миха́йлович Мо́лотов) (February 25, 1890 (O.S.) (March 9, 1890 (N.S.))–November 8, 1986), Soviet politician and diplomat, was a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protege of Joseph Stalin, to the 1950s, when he was dismissed from office by Nikita Khrushchev. He was the principal Soviet signatory of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939. Vyacheslav Molotov - Origins and early life. Including:

George Orwell: Encyclopedia - Unperson

From George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four, "unperson" is the newspeak term for a person who has been not only killed by the state, but effectively erased from existence. Such a person would be written out of existing books, photographs, and articles so that no trace of their existence could be found in the historical record. The idea is that such a person would, according to the principles of doublethink, be forgotten comple ...

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George Orwell: Encyclopedia - Blair

Blair can refer to any of a number of people, places, and things. People with Blair as a surname include: Bill Blair, baseball pitcher in the Negro Leagues Bill Blair, Toronto police chief Bonnie Blair, Olympic gold medalist in speed skating Eric Blair, an author better known by his pen name George Orwell Francis Preston Blair, Jr., 19th century American politician Sir Ian Blair, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London James Blair, Scottish ...

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George Orwell: Encyclopedia - Yevgeny Zamyatin

Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (Евге́ний Ива́нович Замя́тин sometimes translated into English as Eugene Zamyatin) (February 1, 1884 – March 10, 1937) was a Russian author, most famous for his novel We, a story of dystopian future which influenced Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Ayn Rand's Anthem. Zamyatin also wrote a number of short stories, in fairy tale form, that constituted satirical criticism of the Communist regime in Russ ...

George Orwell: Encyclopedia - Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly (10 September 1903 - 26 November 1974) was an English man of letters. Cyril Connolly - Life. He was born in Coventry in Warwickshire to a wealthy family of Anglo-Irish extraction. He was educated at St Cyprian's School and Eton College, at both of which he was an exact contemporary of George Orwell, who remained a life-long friend. Connolly later attended Balliol College, Oxford. A regular contributor to the leftist New Statesman in the 1930s, Connolly went on to co-edit, with S ...

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George Orwell: Encyclopedia - Animal Farm

Animal Farm is a satirical novel (which can also be understood as a modern fable or allegory) by George Orwell, ostensibly about a group of animals who oust the humans from the farm they live on and run it themselves, only to have it corrupted into a brutal tyranny on its own. It was written during World War II and published in 1945, although it was not widely successful until the late 1950s. Animal Farm is a thinly veiled critique and satire of Soviet totalitarianism. Many events in the book are based on ones from the S ...

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George Orwell: Encyclopedia - Animals album

Animals is a Pink Floyd concept album, recorded at the band's own Britannia Row Studios in London and released on 23 January 1977 in the UK on Harvest Records and then released on 2 February 1977 in the US and Canada originally on Columbia Records. It is a concept album, loosely reminiscent of George Orwell's famous book Animal Farm. A digitally re-mastered CD was subsequently released in Europe 1994 on EMI and in 1997 in for the rest of the world on Columbia/Sony. The 1997 remaster was then re-released on 25 April 2000 ...

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George Orwell: Encyclopedia - 1943 in literature

See also: 1942 in literature, other events of 1943, 1944 in literature, list of years in literature. 1943 in literature - Events. George Orwell resigns from the BBC to become literary editor of Tribune. Isaac Bashevis Singer becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States. Jack Kerouac joins the US Navy. C. S. Lewis makes a series of radio broadcasts that will be adapted as Mere Christianity. Tristan Bernard is released from the Drancy deportation c ...

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George Orwell: Encyclopedia - Big Brother TV series

Big Brother is a popular reality television format, where, over 15 weeks or so, a number of contestants (typically 12) try to avoid periodic publicly-voted evictions from a communal house and hence win a cash prize. The show, a kind of 'real life soap', was invented by John de Mol of the Netherlands and developed by his production company, Endemol. It has been a prime-time hit in almost 70 different countries, earning Endemol large sums. The show's name comes from George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystop ...

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George Orwell: Encyclopedia II - Logorrhoea - Examples of logorrhoea

In his essay "Politics and the English Language" (1946), the English writer George Orwell wrote about logorrhoea in politics. He took the following verse (9:11) from the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible: I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of ski ...

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