" Although he did not think much of the Communists, Orwell was still ready to treat them as friends and allies.

Historian John Rodden stated: " John Podhoretz did claim that if Orwell were alive today, he ’ d be standing with the neo-conservatives and against the Left.

' " For Democratic Socialism " is vaporised, just like Winston Smith did it at the Ministry of Truth, and that ’ s very much what happened at the beginning of the McCarthy era and just continued, Orwell being selectively quoted.

Ingle later noted that Orwell did not accept the existence of an afterlife, believing in the finality of death while living and advocating a moral code based on Judeo-Christian beliefs.

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.

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

" Orwell did not wish to publish under his own name Eric Blair, and Orwell was the name he used from then on for his main works — although many periodical articles were still published under the name Eric Blair.

Lynne Truss stated that " Samuel Beckett spliced his way merrily through such novels as Molloy and Malone Dies, thumbing his nose at the semicolon all the way ," " James Joyce preferred the colon, as more authentically classical ; P. G. Wodehouse did an effortlessly marvellous job without it ; George Orwell tried to avoid the semicolon completely in Coming up for Air, ( 1939 )," " Martin Amis included just one semicolon in Money ( 1984 )," and " Umberto Eco was congratulated by an academic reader for using no semicolons in The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ).

The writer George Orwell worked at Billingsgate in the 1930s, as did the Kray twins in the 1950s.

Nevertheless, Orwell felt that the novel did not resemble Joyce's Ulysses.

Orwell did not invent the term " two minutes hate "; it was already in use in the First World War.

MacInnes's Cold War writing, in particular, through the images that hide the grim reality of betrayal, is a literary extension of George Orwell.

Kirwan had just started working for a Foreign Office unit, the Information Research Department, set up by the Labour government to publish anti-communist propaganda, and Orwell gave her a list of people he considered to be unsuitable as IRD authors because of their pro-communist leanings.

In their 1972 study, The Unknown Orwell, the writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams note that at Eton Blair displayed a " sceptical attitude " to Christian belief, and that: " Shaw's preface to his recently published Androcles and the Lion in which an account of the gospels is set forth, very different in tone from what one would be likely to hear from an Anglican clergyman " was " much more to Blair's own taste.

In 1942, commenting on journalist E. H. Carr's pro-Soviet views, Orwell stated: " all the appeasers, e. g. Professor E. H. Carr, have switched their allegiance from Hitler to Stalin.

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

The Thought Police of Orwell and their pursuit of thoughtcrime were based on the methods used by the totalitarian states and ideologies of the 20th century.

In their 1972 study of Orwell, The Unknown Orwell, the writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams, described the novel as Wellsian.

The writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams, in their 1972 The Unknown Orwell, noted :" Eric Blair looked back unforgivingly on the world before 1914-it was that world that had sent him to his prep school-while George Orwell could believe it was superior to what came after it, and looked back to it nostalgically in Coming Up for Air.

", Benjamin Britten, E. M. Forster, Augustus John, George Orwell, Herbert Read ( chairman ), Osbert Sitwell and George Woodcock set up the Freedom Defence Committee to " uphold the essential liberty of individuals and organizations, and to defend those who are persecuted for exercising their rights to freedom of speech, writing and action.

George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh lived in Canonbury Square each quite early in their literary careers.

Orwell describes the old people who live in the home and their living conditions.

George Orwell wrote his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four on the isolated island of Jura, Scotland to describe how a man ( Winston Smith ) attempts to develop critical conscience in a totalitarian state which watches every action of the people and manipulates their thinking with a mixture of propaganda, endless war and thought control through language control ( double think and newsspeak ) to the point where prisoners look up to and even love their torturers.

The insincerity of the writer perpetuates the decline of the language as people ( particularly politicians, Orwell later notes ) attempt to disguise their intentions behind euphemisms and convoluted phrasing.

" 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.

The writer George Orwell, who experienced participatory democracy as he was in Spain with the anarchists before their defeat, discusses it in his book Homage to Catalonia, and says participatory democracy was a " strange and valuable " experience where one could " breath the air of equality " and where normal human motives like snobbishness, greed and fear of authority had ceased to exist.

Soon after their marriage she joined Orwell when he went to fight in the Spanish Civil War, returning the following year after he was wounded in the throat by a sniper.

The writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams noted in their study of Orwell that, " Very likely the tininess of The Stores, house in Wallington, Hertfordshire, where they kept animals in the garden -, appealed to her fantasy side.

In his book The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell described life for the unemployed in northern England during the depression: " Several hundred men risk their lives and several hundred women scrabble in the mud for hours ... searching eagerly for tiny chips of coal in slagheaps so they could heat their own homes.

Orwell himself was to note in Why I Write ( 1946 ) that " I wanted to write enormous naturalistic novels with unhappy endings, full of detailed descriptions and arresting similes, and also full of purple passages in which my words were used partly for the sake of their sound.

The only American review that Orwell himself saw, in the New York Herald Tribune Books, by Margaret Carson Hubbard, was unfavourable: " The ghastly vulgarity of the third-rate characters who endure the heat and talk and nausea of the glorious days of the British Raj, when fifteen lashes settled any native insolence, is such that they kill all interest in their doings.

The writer and academic Frank Kermode has suggested their marriage was a case of Orwell acquiring, as president of his foundation, the most promising young talent he could find.

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.

Orwell also uses the technique of false document in an appendix to the same novel, titled " The Principles of Newspeak ," where Orwell offers a linguistic guide to Oceania's official language, Newspeak from the perspective of the country's ruling party, along with policy prescriptions for how the language may develop in the future.

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.

Colloquially, a dishwasher may be known as a " dish-pig " or a " pan-diver ", from the French " plongeur ", and made famous by George Orwell in Down and Out in Paris and London.

He suggests, for instance, that Orwell may exaggerate the visceral contempt that the English middle classes hold for the working class, adding, however, that, " I may be a bad judge of the question, for I am a Jew, and passed the years of my early boyhood in a fairly close Jewish community ; and, among Jews of this type, class distinctions do not exist.

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However, Orwell may also have been influenced by Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, who once, in a debatably hyperbolic display of loyalty to Adolf Hitler, declared, " If the Führer wants it, two and two makes five!

Le Guin may have named her protagonist " George Orr " as an homage to British author George Orwell, as well as to draw comparisons between the dystopic worlds she describes in Lathe, and the dystopia Orwell envisioned in his novel 1984.

George Orwell began his Reflections on Gandhi: " Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent …" Orwell concluded his essay with an attack on the idea of sainthood but praise for Gandhi: " One may feel, as I do, a sort of aesthetic distaste for Gandhi, one may reject the claims of sainthood made on his behalf ( he never made any such claim himself, by the way ), one may also reject sainthood as an ideal and therefore feel that Gandhi's basic aims were anti-human and reactionary: but regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind!

* Mistaken references to the title of this work as Last Man in London may have given rise to the persistent myth that George Orwell was influenced by it when naming his novel The Last Man in Europe, which was later retitled and is now known as Nineteen Eighty-Four.