Peter Davison's publication of the Complete Works of George Orwell, completed in 2000, put most of the Orwell Archive in the public domain.

In the first week of July 1937 Orwell arrived back at Wallington ; on 13 July 1937 a deposition was presented to the Tribunal for Espionage & High Treason, Valencia, charging the Orwells with ' rabid Trotskyism ', and being agents of the POUM.

David Astor was looking for a provocative contributor for The Observer and invited Orwell to write for him — the first article appearing in March 1942.

Orwell may have been the first to use the term cold war, in his essay, " You and the Atom Bomb ", published in Tribune, 19 October 1945.

" Orwell was a proponent of a federal socialist Europe, a position outlined in his 1947 essay " Toward European Unity ," which first appeared in Partisan Review.

Jeffrey Meyers, a prolific American biographer, was first to take advantage of this and published a book in 2001 that investigated the darker side of Orwell and questioned his saintly image.

** The novel Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published by Fredric Warburg in London.

Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell.

Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell ( Eric Blair ), published in 1933.

Whoever reduced Orwell to destitution did him a good turn ; his final ten weeks in Paris sowed the seed of his first published book.

One of the first acknowledgments of Henry Miller as a major modern writer was by George Orwell in his 1940 essay " Inside the Whale ", where he wrote:

In the 1920s and 1930s, he also edited the periodicals Monde and Progrès Civique, which published some of the first writings of George Orwell.

Coming Up for Air is a novel by George Orwell, first published in June 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II.

The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the British writer George Orwell, first published in 1937.

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.

In contrast to the straightforward documentary of the first part of the book, in part two Orwell discusses the relevance of socialism to improving living conditions.

Arthur Calder-Marshall ’ s March 20, 1937 review in Time and Tide celebrates Orwell ’ s achievement, and can be summarized by its first line: “ Of Mr Orwell ’ s book, there is little to say except praise .”

In Tribune on March 12, 1937, Walter Greenwood calls Part I “ authentic and first rate ” but was more ambivalent towards Part II: “ Part II, Orwell has you with him one moment and provoked beyond endurance the next.

He first came to know George Orwell after the two had a public disagreement in the pages of the Partisan Review.

" Shooting an Elephant " is an essay by George Orwell, first published in the literary magazine New Writing in the autumn of 1936 and broadcast by the BBC Home Service on 12 October 1948.

In Moulmein, the narrator — Orwell, writing in the first person — is a police officer during a period of intense anti-European sentiment.

" Developing themes Orwell began exploring in this essay, Newspeak first corrupts writers morally, then politically, " since it allows writers to cheat themselves and their readers with ready-made prose.

George Orwell wrote an essay, " In Defence of English Cooking ", first published in the Evening Standard on 15 December 1945.

Eileen Maud O ' Shaughnessy ( 25 September 1905 – 29 March 1945 ) was the first wife of British writer George Orwell.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Mr. Philip Toynbee affirms at one point that if he shared the anticipations of Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, if he believed Communism was not only evil but `` also irredeemably evil '', then he might `` think it right to do anything rather than to take the risk of a communist world.

With Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell taps into the anti-communist fears that would continue to haunt so many in the West for decades to come.

Similarities can be observed in Orwell ’ s own definition of doublethink, from Nineteen Eighty-Four ;

For the next four years Orwell mixed journalistic work – mainly for Tribune, The Observer and the Manchester Evening News, though he also contributed to many small-circulation political and literary magazines – with writing his best-known work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which was published in 1949.

Orwell meanwhile set to work on Nineteen Eighty-Four.

By the end of July 1948 Orwell was able to return to Jura and by December he had finished the manuscript of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Modern readers are more often introduced to Orwell as a novelist, particularly through his enormously successful titles Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

In Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell described a totalitarian government that controlled thought by controlling language, making certain ideas literally unthinkable.

" In Nineteen Eighty-Four, written shortly after the war, Orwell portrayed the Party as enlisting anti-Semitic passions against their enemy, Goldstein.

* 1984 – George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

* Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) by George Orwell

In literature, the effects of historical revisionism are usually described in science fiction novels such as Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ), by George Orwell.

In the science fiction novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) by George Orwell, the government of Oceania continually revises historical records to concord with current politics.

Though the term " retcon " did not yet exist when George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian regime depicted in that book is involved in a constant, large-scale retconning of past records.

* Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell in 1949.

* Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ), a book by George Orwell, depicted a world in which two-way television screens are fitted in every room, so that people's actions are monitored at all times.

Essayist and poet Eric Blair adopted the pseudonym George Orwell for most of his books, including Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four.

Blake's 7 also drew inspiration from the classic British dystopian novels Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells.

He wrote " If you wanted to sum up the relative position of Britain and America in this century – the ebbing away of the pink areas of the map, the fading of national self-confidence as Uncle Sam proceeded to colonise the globe with fizzy drinks and Hollywood – you could do it like this: they had Star Trek, we had Blake's 7 ... No ' boldly going ' here: instead, we got the boot stamping on a human face which George Orwell offered as a vision of humanity's future in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

* Julia, a character in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Room 101 is a place introduced in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, thoughtcrime is the criminal act of holding unspoken beliefs or doubts that oppose or question the ruling party.

The British author George Orwell, best known for his anti-authoritarian works Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, was a soldier in the militia of the CNT-allied Partido Obrero Unificación Marxista ( POUM ; English: Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ).

This includes such words as " Orwellian " ( from George Orwell, referring to his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ) and " Ballardesque " or " Ballardian " ( from J. G.