There were thoughts of going to India to work on the Pioneer, a newspaper in Lucknow, but by March 1938 Orwell's health had deteriorated.

Orwell's health was in decline again by Christmas.

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.

Orwell's Paris street, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris | 5th arrondissement: " tall old-fashioned windows and dark grey leaded roofs ; not far from the École Normale Supérieure — earlier in the twenties, Ernest Hemingway | Hemingway had lived only 500 yards from Orwell's street ; Elliot Paul was then still living in his own ' narrow street ', the Rue de la Huchette, in the same arrondissement down by the river near the Place Saint-Michel ; and once, at the Les Deux Magots | Deux Magots in 1928, Orwell thought he saw James Joyce.

It was submitted to Victor Gollancz, who had an option on Orwell's next three novels, in spite of the ' cold treatment which had been given when Homage to Catalonia was rejected.

" He places Coming Up For Air alongside Orwell's 1946 essay Some Thoughts on the Common Toad where he had written that, " retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and-toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable ".

Both men had shared a common interest in society, culture, literature and politics, and whenever duty placed them together, had discussed such topics as George Orwell's famous novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and the philosophy of Marxism, particularly Oswald's interest in the latter.

Virgin Films had contracted the band to provide a soundtrack for Michael Radford's modern film adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

* 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.

Some scholars believe that Eileen had a large influence on Orwell's writing.

Longhurst, who had great admiration for the school and for Mrs. Wilkes, described these authors ' accounts of the school as unrecognizable, and would frequently defend " a very fine school " in response to reviewers of Orwell's work.

Cecil Beaton, who was at the school with Orwell, had a different reaction, describing the work as " Hilariously funny-but exaggerated " Orwell's essay has been dissected in detail and its reliability questioned by Pearce.

Cary's pamphlet " The Case for African Freedom " ( 1941 ), published by Orwell's Searchlight Books series, had attracted some interest, and the film director Thorold Dickinson asked for Cary's help in developing a wartime movie set partly in Africa.

The question of why these leaders had pleaded guilty and confessed to various crimes at the trials had become a topic of discussion for a number of western writers, and had underlain books such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon.

It also had much to do with Orwell's own " power of facing unpleasant facts ," as he called it, and his willingness to criticize prevailing ideas which brought him into conflict with others and their " smelly little orthodoxies.

He published Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier but insisted on prefacing its account of working-class life in the north of England with an introduction disowning its criticisms of middle-class socialists who had little understanding of working class life and later republished the book leaving out the second part of which he disapproved.

Kneale had fourteen years earlier adapted George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as a classic and controversial BBC broadcast and the play reflects much of Kneale's assimilation of Orwell's concern about the power of the media and Kneale's experience of the evolving media industry.

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

This preoccupation is also visible in Homage to Catalonia, and continued as an underlying theme of Orwell's work for the years after World War II.

" The Boston Herald gave a positive review and the Chicago Tribune called it " The most shockingly realistic science fiction book since Orwell's ' 1984 '...."

The allusion is never explained in Orwell's text, but it is grimly ironic, since Orwell recollects his early boarding school experiences with unvarnished realism.

After the customary distributor agreement expired, the film was withdrawn from the theatrical and TV distribution channels by Orwell's estate and was not legally obtainable for many years, although it has since been released on DVD and clips have surfaced on YouTube.

On 16 December 2010, Variety reported that Gilliam is to " godfather " a film called 1884 which is described as an animated steampunk parody of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, with several former Pythons lending their voice talents to the project whereas Gilliam will be credited as " creative adviser ".

The only translation published in Orwell's lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948.

Of particular note was their collaboration on an adaptation of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, originally broadcast on 12 December 1954, regarded as Cartier's most famous work.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

In 1947 Malcolm Lowry published Under the Volcano, while George Orwell's satire of totalitarianism, 1984, was published in 1949.

One of his early adaptations was of Orwell's Animal Farm in 1947.

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.

Big Brother's face looms from giant telescreens in Victory Square in Michael Radford's Nineteen Eighty-Four ( film ) | 1984 film adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Big Brother is a fictional character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The term Big Brother originates from George Orwell's novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

" During this period, Pasternak delighted in reading a clandestine copy of George Orwell's Animal Farm in English.

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

Orwell's famous allegory of totalitarian rule, Animal Farm, published in 1945, provoked similar anti-communist sentiments.

The World State in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Airstrip One in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four are both fictional examples of command economies, albeit with diametrically opposed aims: The former is a consumer economy designed to engender productivity while the latter is a shortage economy designed as an agent of totalitarian social control.

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

However, doublespeak might possibly have certain concepts taken from George Orwell's book, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Although the theories that premise doublespeak are still indefinite, there are some theories that have parallels with the theory of doublespeak and Orwell's ideology in Nineteen Eighty-Four and might possibly provide a better understanding of where doublespeak's theories could have come from.

Henceforth, conflict theory demonstrates the dominating ideology of the bourgeoisie and Moran's theory highlights that doublespeak produces an illusionary effect ; both theories having parallels to Orwell's ideology in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The NCTE's publications resonate with George Orwell's name, and allusions to him abound in statements on doublespeak ; for example, the committee quoted Orwell's remark that " language is often used as an instrument of social control " in Language and Public Policy.

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.

Yet for all the failings of Erewhon, it is also clearly not a dystopia, such as that depicted by George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell's novel set in a totalitarian London, main character Winston Smith initially dislikes Julia, the woman he comes to love, because of " the atmosphere of hockey-fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean-mindedness which she managed to carry about with her.

* George Orwell's dystopian novel " Nineteen Eighty-Four " includes selections from a banned fictional book The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, which citizens of Oceania are forbidden to read.

" George Orwell's Animal Farm ( 1945 ) similarly satirized Stalinist Communism in particular, and totalitarianism in general, in the guise of animal fable.

Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture, and the term Orwellian — descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices — has entered the vernacular with several of his neologisms, such as doublethink, thoughtcrime, and thought police.

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.

Orwell's research for The Road to Wigan Pier led to him being placed under surveillance by the Special Branch in 1936, for 12 years, until one year before the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four.