In July Susan Watson arrived with Orwell's son Richard.

Over the years there were contributions by Richard Blair, Orwell's adopted son and also The Observer newspaper, among others.

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.

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.

Together with David Astor and Richard Rees, Orwell's literary executor, she established the George Orwell Archive at University College London, which opened in 1960.

Radford came to international attention with Nineteen Eighty-Four, his adaptation of George Orwell's novel 1984, starring John Hurt as Winston Smith, and in which Richard Burton gave his final film performance.

Sonia Orwell and Warburg both wanted to publish Such, Such Were the Joys immediately after Orwell's death, but Sir Richard Rees, who was Orwell's literary executor violently disagreed.

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 mother sent him ( as Eric Blair ) to board at St Cyprian's School at the age of eight in 1911.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

On Orwell's claimed state of misery, Jacintha Buddicom, who knew him well at the time, also raised a strong challenge.

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.

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.

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.

Visitors were shocked by Orwell's appearance and concerned by the short-comings and ineffectiveness of the treatment.

Orwell's will requested that no biography of him be written, and his wife Sonia Brownell repelled every attempt by those who tried to persuade her to let them write about him.

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.

Zajdel paid a tribute to George Orwell's newspeak and to Aldous Huxley by naming one of the main characters Nikor Orley Huxwell.

A well-known fictional oligarchy is represented by the Party in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Two early examples are the " vapourization " of " unpersons " in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (" He did not exist ; he never existed "); and the reference to the Egyptian practice in the 1956 movie The Ten Commandments, in which the Pharaoh Seti orders the name of Moses be struck from every building and never mentioned by anyone.

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.

The second single released was " Talk Shows on Mute ", featuring a video that was inspired by George Orwell's Animal Farm.

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.

* George Orwell's novel, 1984, portrays a fictional totalitarian surveillance society which has a very simple ( by today's standards ) mass surveillance system consisting of human operatives, informants, and two-way " telescreens " in people's homes.

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.

" 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.