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Orwell's and list
Priestley's name was on Orwell's list, a list of people which George Orwell prepared in March 1949 for the Information Research Department, a propaganda unit set up at the Foreign Office by the Labour government.
Deutscher's name ( with the remark " Sympathiser only ") subsequently appeared on Orwell's list, a list of people ( many writers and journalists ) which George Orwell prepared in March 1949 for the Information Research Department, a propaganda unit set up at the Foreign Office by the Labour government.
His name was on Orwell's list of notable writers and other individuals he considered to be unsuitable as possible writers for the British Foreign Office's Information Research Department.
Her name was on Orwell's list, a list of people which George Orwell prepared in March 1949 for the Information Research Department, a propaganda unit set up at the Foreign Office by the Labour government.
In return, Goldring was later on Orwell's list of crypto-Communists.
Some have attributed Jacob's problems to the fact that his name was on Orwell's list, a list of people with pro-communist leanings prepared in March 1949 by George Orwell for his friend Celia Kirwan at the Information Research Department, a propaganda unit set up at the Foreign Office by the Labour government.
Jacob's establishment and pension rights were restored shortly after his wife Iris Morley, who was also included on Orwell's list, died in 1953.

Orwell's and published
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.
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.
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.
Orwell's first published article in his home country, A Farthing Newspaper, was a critique of the new French daily the Ami de Peuple.
Crick collated a considerable amount of material in his work, which was published in 1980, but his questioning of the factual accuracy of Orwell's first-person writings led to conflict with Brownell.
* 1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
** George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
( The in-story explanation for this apparent date-shift is that Orwell's book was published in 1948.
The only translation published in Orwell's lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948.
A French translation made by Yvonne Davet – with whom Orwell corresponded, commenting on her translation and providing explanatory notes – in 1938-39, was not published until five years after Orwell's death.
At a later date Gollancz published part one on its own, against Orwell's wishes, and he refused to publish Homage to Catalonia at all.
In Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the euphemistically-called " memory hole " is used to burn any book or written text which is inconvenient to the regime, and there is mention of " the total destruction of all books published before 1960 ".
In 1947 Malcolm Lowry published Under the Volcano, while George Orwell's satire of totalitarianism, 1984, was published in 1949.
The essay " Politics and the English Language " was published nearly simultaneously with another of Orwell's essays, " The Prevention of Literature ".
When it was published in the 1930s Orwell's harsh portrayal of colonial society was felt by " some old Burma hands " to have " rather let the side down.
Jeffrey Meyers, in a 1975 guide to Orwell's work, wrote of the E. M. Forster connection that, " Burmese Days was strongly influenced by A Passage to India, which was published in 1924 when Orwell was serving in Burma.
He wrote a number of articles about the conflict and was influential in getting Orwell's Homage to Catalonia published.
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.
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.
The term, " Knacker's " is used in the George Orwell's book, Animal Farm, published in 1945.
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.
The First World War had just broken out, and Orwell's patriotic poem written at school was published in the Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard.

Orwell's and until
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.
The catalogue numbers of Crass Records releases were intended to represent a countdown to the year 1984 ( e. g., 521984 meaning " five years until 1984 "), both the year that Crass stated that they would split up, and a date charged with significance in the anti-authoritarian calendar due to George Orwell's novel of the same name ( see Nineteen Eighty-Four ).

Orwell's and 2003
In 2003, the centenary of Orwell's birth resulted in biographies by Gordon Bowker and D. J. Taylor, both academics and writers in the United Kingdom.

Orwell's and writers
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.

Orwell's and also
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.
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.
To this end, he compares George Orwell's Coming Up for Air with Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants and concludes that the basic building block and distinguishing feature of a science fiction novel is the presence of the novum, a term Darko Suvin adapts from Ernst Bloch and defines as " a discrete piece of information recognizable as not-true, but also as not-unlike-true, not-flatly-( and in the current state of knowledge ) impossible ".
Orwell's Aunt Nellie Limouzin also lived in Paris and gave him social and, when necessary, financial support.
") The title also refers to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The Lewes Film Club, which also produces short movies ( including the recent adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm ), and Film at All Saints ( the Film Club in collaboration with Lewes Town Council ), show films based in the All Saints Centre, a former church.
" 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 ).
She also appeared in a television special produced by Nam June Paik broadcast on New Years Day 1984, entitled Good Morning Mr. Orwell ( the title being inspired by Orwell's novel 1984 ).
It has also been suggested by Jeffrey Meyer in " Orwell's Apocalypse: Coming Up For Air, Modern Fiction Studies " that George Orwell's primary character George Bowling in " Coming Up For Air " was modelled on Leopold Bloom.
The word " Telescreen " also appears in Robert Heinlein's " Space Cadet ", written at the same time as Orwell's book-where it simply refers to an instrument similar to a big television, with none of Orwell's sinister connotations.
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.
He also translated George Orwell's 1984, three Dialogues of Plato, Denis Kincaid's book " The Great Rebel " about Shivaji and other books into Hindi.
Billericay is also mentioned in George Orwell's novel Down and Out in Paris and London.
Another of Orwell's biographers, Michael Shelden, notes that Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham and E. M. Forster have been suggested as possible influences, but believes also that " the ghost of Housman hangs heavily over the book.
* Syme is also a minor character in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The song was also performed by the Ray Ellington Quartet in the episode 1985 ( a parody of George Orwell's 1984 ) of the popular BBC radio comedy series, The Goon Show.
The site also contains a catalogue of books considered to be relevant to the magazine's themes and ideas ; although many of these books contain far-right content, often taking the form of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, there are some more surprising entries, such as the reformed Communist and social democrat George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and left-wing conspiracist Greg Palast's The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
Over the years there were contributions by Richard Blair, Orwell's adopted son and also The Observer newspaper, among others.
Eugene Aram is also referenced in antepenultimate stanza of George Orwell's 1935 poem " A Happy Vicar I Might Have Been ".
Beckton was also used as a location in Michael Radford's 1984 feature film adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four — the Gasworks served as the setting for Orwell's " Proletarian Zones ".
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.

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