George Orwell
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Historian Robert Service Selects Top 5 Books on Totalitarianism...the books that led to his passion and the importance of analyzing the causes and outcomes of political processes. "1984" - George Orwell. I read this, like most people do, when I was in my midteens. At that stage I was a classicist, and I... In this article: Leon Trotsky, George Orwell, Bolsheviks, Thucydides, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Totalitarianism, Robert Service, Literature, My Life, and Alexander Blok |
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National Public Radio | 21 hours ago
Digital Tears: Breakups And Social Networks
...before they post online: "Don't go public with your so-called private life." Martin says her daughter told her: "'You know George Orwell's 1984 has come about, but it's not them doing it to us, it's us doing it to ourselves. We're...
In this article: Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr, LinkedIn, and MySpace
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Independent.co.uk - Commentators | 1 day ago
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Still no hope of common sense in the war against anti-Semitism
...clever Jew who was unlikely to understand the "English" idea of fair play. The paper was obliged to publish a grovelling apology. George Orwell wrote a stirring essay in 1945 on this English prejudice. Julius describes a train journey when...
In this article: Anthony Julius, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Britain, Democracy, Allegation, Rash, Diana, Princess of Wales, and UN
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Independent.co.uk - Commentators | 1 day ago
Julius Cavendish: Home comforts land at Kandahar airfield
...resources to attack Starbucks. On closer inspection, it was an electricity transformer blowing up. NGOs speak the AfPak lingo George Orwell noted that armies march on a plague of initials. The coalition forces and aid agencies here are...
In this article: Kandahar, Coffee, Starbucks, Taliban, Afghanistan, Capitalism, and Pizza Hut
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USATODAY.com | 1 day ago
'Future of Work' predicts jobs and home life will merge more
...lives, creating a more unified experience described in The Future of Work. "If the computer screen is not yet the Big Brother of George Orwell's 1984, along with invasive accomplices like the BlackBerry and iPhone, it may be seen as a...
In this article: BlackBerry, Big Brother, Obesity, Little Brother, Iphone, Facebook, USA Today, Financial Times, and World Health Organization
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Largehearted Boy | 2 days ago
Shorties (George Orwell, Gil Scott-Heron, and more)
...as news from the worlds of music, literature, and pop culture. The Philadelphia Inquirer looks back on the literary career of George Orwell, 60 years after his death. NPR's All Things Considered profiles poet and singer-songwriter Gil...
In this article: Van Dyke Parks, Gil Scott-Heron, Morrissey, Smiths, Joe Sacco, Los Angeles Times, and Ann Beattie
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scotsman.com - Books | 3 days ago
Book review: The Thirties: An Intimate History
...figures of the 1930s, such as the heiress Nancy Cunard, or even a quote from one of the famous writers of the period such as George Orwell. She begins instead, for those who cannot now remember or who never learned about it, with an...
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New York Times | 4 days ago
Movie Review 'Red Riding Trilogy': Men and Terror Run Wild
...rat is a reminder that the first book in Mr. Peace's "Red Riding" quartet, titled "Nineteen Seventy-Four," is an explicit nod to George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and its infamous rodent of terror. The title of Mr. Peace's book and the...
In this article: David Peace, Robert Sheehan, Tony Grisoni, Peter Mullan, and Mark Addy
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washingtonpost.com | January 31, 2010
Book World: Patrick Anderson reviews 'The Bell Ringers' by Henry Porter
War was peace in this world, lies were truth, and the individual had no rights whatsoever. It's a powerful novel, a milestone, but Orwell, deeply influenced by the evil of Joseph Stalin, painted in broad strokes. In fact, 1984 came and went...
In this article: John Temple, Nineteen Eighty-Four, England, Big Brother, and Democracy
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Telegraph.co.uk - UK news | January 22, 2010
George Orwell named as 'writers' writer'
...Orwell has been named as the most popular Penguin novelist in its history in a survey of its current stable of writers. George Orwell emerged as by far the favourite writer among 50 Penguin authors The publisher asked 50 of its...
In this article: Gaia, Gulf War, RAF, History of the Peloponnesian War, Tornado, Punch magazine, Thucydides, and James Lovelock
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Independent.co.uk - Books | January 14, 2010
Book Of A Lifetime: Essays, By George Orwell
...occurred during Orwell's 1920s stint in the Burmese police. An elephant had run amok in the local marketplace, and when Orwell was summoned he shot it, although it posed little further danger. As the only English official present, he had to...
In this article: Michel de Montaigne, Imperialism, Chatto & Windus, and Eastbourne
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Description from Wikipedia:
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author. His work is marked by a profound consciousness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity in language.
Considered "perhaps the 20th century’s best chronicler of English culture", he wrote works in many different genres including novels, essays, polemic journalism, literary reviews, and poetry. His most famous works are the satirical novel Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
- Name At Birth:
- Eric Arthur Blair
- Also Known As:
- George Orwell
- Birth Date:
- June 25, 1903
- Birthplace:
- Motihari, Bihar, India
- Death Date:
- January 21, 1950
- Place of Death:
- London, England
- Occupation:
- Writer; author, journalist
- Influenced By:
- James Burnham, Charles Dickens, Henry Fielding, Gustave Flaubert, James Joyce, Aldous Huxley, Arthur Koestler, Jack London, W. Somerset Maugham, Upton Sinclair, Jonathan Swift, Leo Tolstoy, Leon Trotsky, H. G. Wells, Tom Wintringham, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Émile Zola
- Influenced:
- Margaret Atwood, Albert Camus, Noam Chomsky, Christopher Hitchens, Ignazio Silone, Kurt Vonnegut
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