At one point in 1984 Winston Smith, the protagonist of Orwell's novel, tries " to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother.

At St. Cyprian's, Blair first met Cyril Connolly, who became a noted writer and, as the editor of Horizon, published many of Orwell's essays.

At the beginning of 1940, the first edition of Connolly's Horizon appeared, and this provided a new outlet for Orwell's work as well as new literary contacts.

Eleven eventually appeared and Orwell's The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius was the first and was published on 19 February 1941.

This was Orwell's first experience of the rigid conformity of life in an office.

Orwell's first published article in his home country, A Farthing Newspaper, was a critique of the new French daily the Ami de Peuple.

According to Orwell biographer Bernard Crick, publisher Victor Gollancz first tried to persuade Orwell's agent to allow the Left Book Club edition to consist solely of the descriptive first half of the book.

The album's first single, " Sexcrime ( Nineteen Eighty-Four )", was a top 5 hit in the UK, Australia and across Europe, and a major dance success in the United States, but its supposedly suggestive title ( actually taken from the newspeak phrase used in Orwell's book ) resulted in many U. S. pop radio stations refusing to play the track.

* Chapter 7 of the first part of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, in which " the law by which every capitalist had the right to sleep with any woman working in one of his factories " is an element of the Party's propaganda

In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the main character, Winston Smith, thinks back to his childhood and his first memories of war, recalling: " Perhaps it was the time when the atomic bomb had fallen on Colchester.

" Orwell's first novel, it describes " corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, " after all, natives were natives-interesting, no doubt, but finally ... an inferior people.

Later that year, she travelled to England to play the role of Julia in the first film version of George Orwell's 1984, despite being several months pregnant at the time.

The first issue featured Orwell's essay Shooting an Elephant.

In 1972, shortly before leaving Soft Machine, he recorded the first record under his own name, 1984 ( named after George Orwell's novel ).

The first version of the script, produced in late 1953, was written by Hugh Faulks, in consultation with Orwell's widow Sonia Brownell, but when Cartier joined in January 1954 he demanded that Kneale be allowed to handle the adaptation.

The concept was first popularized by George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

He directed the first cinema adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 ( 1956 ) and Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for his direction.

It was probably composed in the early 1940s, but it was first published by the Partisan Review in 1952, two years after Orwell's death.

Senior boys in Orwell's first year included Ian Fraser and Bolo Whistler.

Nigel Kneale was a Manx television playwright who had first come to prominence in the nineteen-fifties thanks to his three Quatermass serials and his controversial adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, all of which were produced by the BBC.

The first is a series of essays and interviews ( Burgess is the voice of the interviewer and the interviewee ) discussing aspects of Orwell's book.

Writer George Orwell and his son ( who lived at Barnhill in northern Jura ) were briefly shipwrecked on the skerry of Eilean Mor ( south of the whirlpool ) when boating in the gulf, and Orwell's one-legged brother-in-law Bill Dunn was the first person to swim the gulf.

" However, the profound fascist / anti-fascist schism of the period described by Hobsbawm was real enough, as Yale historian Timothy Snyder notes: Nevertheless, Snyder also claimed that " The Spanish Civil War revealed that Stalin was determined, despite the Popular Front rhetoric of pluralism, to eliminate opposition to his version of socialism ", and that his determination was knowable and known even contemporaneously ( Snyder cites George Orwell's analysis of, and dismay at, communist actions in Spain ).

Nevertheless, the record was presented as " music derived from the original score of Eurythmics for the Michael Radford film version of Orwell's 1984 ".

On August 27, after five years of officially being in a beta stage, version 5. 0 was released by the developer from Orwell's blog.

In many respects, Interphase is a finite version of George Orwell's 1984.

It is the British version of the Dutch Big Brother television format, which takes its name from the character in George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

He did take one of the leading parts in another Cartier and Kneale production the following year, when he played O ' Brien in their version of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, opposite Peter Cushing as Winston Smith.

Some of the best-known productions screened in the strand included a new version of Nigel Kneale's 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1965 ); the four-part Talking to a Stranger by John Hopkins ( 1966 ) which told the same story from four different viewpoints, and starred Judi Dench ; and 1968's science-fiction allegory The Year of the Sex Olympics, again by Kneale.

He made his screen debut in 1956 as the voice of Big Brother in Michael Anderson's film version of George Orwell's 1984 starring Edmond O ' Brien.

It is a 19th century version of George Orwell's 1984.

In 1952, within two years of Orwell's death a version was published in the USA in the Partisan Review.

* George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London and A Clergyman's Daughter

In some ways it is similar to George Orwell's much earlier Down and Out in Paris and London, German investigative reporter Günter Wallraff's Ganz Unten ( The Lowest of the Low ), and John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me.

* Navvies are referenced throughout George Orwell's fictionalized memoir Down and Out in Paris and London.

Billericay is also mentioned in George Orwell's novel Down and Out in Paris and London.

* The title is a reference to George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London.

Other projects in the pipeline include a biopic of Elton John called Rocketman, a stage musical adaptation of Pink Floyd's The Wall and a film adaptation of George Orwell's Down and Out In Paris and London.

It is a book of a street gang in Los Angeles ( specifically, East Los Angeles and the city's eastern suburbs ), has been highly acclaimed and contrasted to the works of Louis-Ferdinand Celine and George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London in its description of the lives of desperate, impoverished individuals in big cities.

He was convinced that George Orwell's 1984 was nearly all wrong as it applied to England, which was `` driving forward into uncharted waters '', with the danger of a new tyranny ahead.

George Orwell's classic dystopia Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949.

Other literary portrayals of planned economies were Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, which was an influence on Orwell's work.

Tibbetts argues that such a relation between NCTE and Orwell's work is contradicting because ' the Committee's attitude towards language is liberal, even radical ' while ' Orwell's attitude was conservative, even reactionary '.

Diamond Dogs ( 1974 ), parts of which found him heading towards soul and funk, was the product of two distinct ideas: a musical based on a wild future in a post-apocalyptic city, and setting George Orwell's 1984 to music.

Pollitt was suspicious of Orwell's political reliability ; he asked him whether he would undertake to join the International Brigade and advised him to get a safe-conduct from the Spanish Embassy in Paris.

Orwell spent time in Wallington and Southwold working on a Dickens essay and it was in July 1939 that Orwell's father, Richard Blair, died.

In March 1943 Orwell's mother died and around the same time he told Moore he was starting work on a new book, which would turn out to be Animal Farm.

Orwell's health was in decline again by Christmas.

Orwell's son, Richard Blair, was raised by an aunt after his father's death.

Journalist and public intellectual Christopher Hitchens was one of several authors influenced by Orwell's politics and use of language

" Christopher Norris declared that Orwell's " homespun empiricist outlook – his assumption that the truth was just there to be told in a straightforward common-sense way – now seems not merely naive but culpably self-deluding ".

In Orwell's Victory, Christopher Hitchens argues, " In answer to the accusation of inconsistency Orwell as a writer was forever taking his own temperature.

Jacintha Buddicom repudiated Orwell's schoolboy misery described in the essay, stating that " he was a specially happy child ".

" Jackson was to be the most critical of Orwell's marriage to Eileen O ' Shaughnessy but their later correspondence hints at a complicity.

Eileen at the time was more concerned about Orwell's closeness to Brenda Salkield.

the other crucial dimension to Orwell's socialism was his recognition that the Soviet Union was not socialist.