Category: Novels by George Orwell

He taught French for a year at Eton, where Eric Blair ( later to become George Orwell ) and Stephen Runciman were among his pupils, but was remembered as an incompetent and hopeless teacher who couldn ’ t keep discipline.

A prominent critic was George Orwell, who frequently referred to him in his essays and diaries as " A Catholic Apologist " and accused him of being " silly-clever ", in line with his criticisms of G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Ronald Knox and Wyndham-Lewis.

In 2000, after the U. S. version of the CBS program " Big Brother " premiered, the Estate of George Orwell sued CBS and its production company " Orwell Productions, Inc ." in federal court in Chicago for copyright and trademark infringement.

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From 1942 to 1944 George Orwell was a proponent of Basic English, but in 1945 he became critical of universal languages.

In his essay " Politics and the English Language ", George Orwell observes that political language serves to distort and obfuscate reality.

The Committee also presented the George Orwell Award for Honesty and Clarity in Public Language for 1975-76 to Professor Hugh Rank who created the pattern.

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George Orwell uses Ecclesiastes ( specifically 9: 11 ) prominently in Politics and the English Language to exemplify the qualities of " good English.

George Orwell wrote in 1944 that " the word ' Fascism ' is almost entirely meaningless ... almost any English person would accept ' bully ' as a synonym for ' Fascist '".

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Eric Arthur Blair ( 25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950 ), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist.

He was also spending time with Eleanor Jacques, but her attachment to Dennis Collings remained an obstacle to his hopes of a more serious relationship. The pen-name " George Orwell " was inspired by the River Orwell

Four days later, he wrote to Moore, suggesting the pseudonyms P. S. Burton ( a name he used when tramping ), Kenneth Miles, George Orwell, and H. Lewis Allways.

He finally adopted the nom de plume George Orwell because, as he told Eleanor Jacques, " It is a good round English name.

", which has since been widely attributed to Orwell ; see Bibliography of George Orwell.

Such a company " George Orwell Productions Ltd " ( GOP Ltd ) was set up on 12 September 1947 although the service agreement was not then put into effect.

Other writers admired by Orwell included: Ralph Waldo Emerson, G. K. Chesterton, George Gissing, Graham Greene, Herman Melville, Henry Miller, Tobias Smollett, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and Yevgeny Zamyatin.

George Woodcock suggested that the last two sentences characterised Orwell as much as his subject.

A delegation of workers complained of the low wages and twelve-hour workdays, and that the corporation that operated the town of Pullman didn't decrease rents, but company owner George Pullman " loftily declined to talk with them.

George Bernard Shaw, who criticised the play perhaps more harshly than he did any of Shakespeare's other works, took aim at what he saw as the defects of the final act in his 1937 Cymbeline Refinished ; as early as 1896, he had complained about the absurdities of the play to Ellen Terry, then preparing to act Imogen.

In 1798, George Washington had complained " that you could as soon scrub the blackamoor white, as to change the principles of a professed Democrat ; and that he will leave nothing unattempted to overturn the Government of this Country ".

London reportedly complained to friends Joseph Noel and George Sterling that, " is devoted to purity.

Harmony Society leader George Rapp, one of Helveti's creditors, complained in 1815 " about the risk Helvety is taking with the sheep ," and in 1821, the property was sold at Sheriff's sale to Rapp.

In the United States Declaration of Independence, colonists complained that George III " has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained ; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

The young critic, George Bernard Shaw, complained that German's symphonies were limited by the composer's indulgence in a theatricality out of place in symphonic writing.

Darby had instituted a second meeting at Plymouth and in 1848 he complained of the Bristol Bethesda assembly, in which George Müller was prominent, that they had accepted a member from Ebrington Street, Newton's original chapel.

In June 1921 Lloyd George complained that he could “ never get a sane discussion ” with Wilson.

In October 1921 Lloyd George complained that Wilson was “ very difficult ” and he was not sad that his term of office was almost up.

General George Marshall complained to Morgenthau that German resistance had strengthened.

In 1973, a father complained to the FCC that his son had heard the George Carlin routine " Filthy Words " broadcast one afternoon over WBAI, a Pacifica Foundation FM radio station in New York City.

George Stade of The New York Times complained that " our Grand Mistress of lumpen realism has gone religious on us ".

New York Times reviewer George Stade said that Shikasta " forces us to think about [...] what we are, how we got that way and where we are going ", but complained that the book is filled with " false hopes ", and that the fate of humankind relies on " theosophical emanations, cosmic influences, occult powers, spiritual visitations and stellar vibrations ".

" General George Marshall complained to Morgenthau that German resistance had strengthened.

Editor and critic George Ripley liked the play's " native " scenes and " beautiful characters " but complained that Priscilla's speeches sounded like dense orphic sayings and that Longfellow could not capture the " Yankee realism of speech ".

During the 21 March 1967 session in which producer George Martin added a piano solo to Lovely Rita, Lennon complained that he did not feel well and could not focus.

American General George S. Patton complained that the U. S. policy of denazification following Germany's surrender harmed American interests and was motivated simply by hatred of the defeated German people.

During a 1977 engagement at the Catamaran Hotel in San Diego, he complained to the audience about George Benson's success with " Breezin '" ( composer, Bobby Womack ).

Conroy complained that the princess should not be surrounded with commoners, leading George IV to award them both titles ; Lehzen became a Baroness of the Kingdom of Hanover.

" Of its writing style, writer George V. Higgins complained:

As the queen died on 11 May 1775, his schemes came to nothing and he complained that he was out-of-pocket, but George III took no notice of him for some time.

Thus George Washington in 1798 complained, " that you could as soon scrub the blackamoor white, as to change the principles of a profest Democrat ; and that he will leave nothing unattempted to overturn the Government of this Country.

The second features George and Estelle Costanza in the hospital, where the female patient has been moved to the room next-door after Estelle complained about her nakedness.