" 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 ).

Orwell did not choose the images and their inclusion may not have been his idea.

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 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.

George Orwell and Tom Wintringham made especially extensive use of the term " blimps ", Orwell in his articles and Wintringham in his books How to Reform the Army and People's War, with exactly the above meaning in mind.

At the end of World War II, English author and journalist George Orwell used cold war, as a general term, in his essay “ You and the Atomic Bomb ”, published October 19, 1945, in the British newspaper Tribune.

George Orwell wrote in his 1946 article, " Politics and the English Language ", that the term " cul de sac " is another foreign word used in English as pretentious diction, and is unnecessary.

Prolefeed is a Newspeak term in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

Goodthink, a term from Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, is a Newspeak word meaning "( to hold ) thoughts and beliefs that are approved by the Party ".

As early as 1944, the term had already become so widely and loosely employed that British essayist and novelist George Orwell was moved to write:

Crimestop is a Newspeak term taken from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

" Then, during the course of World War II, George Orwell used the term in the essay “ You and the Atomic Bomb ” published October 19, 1945, in the British newspaper Tribune.

In September 1943, Orwell resigned from the BBC post that he had occupied for two years.

George Woodcock suggested that the last two sentences characterised Orwell as much as his subject.

The view that this was a specific commission with a £ 500 advance — two years ' income for Orwell at the time, is based on a recollection by Geoffrey Gorer who was interviewed for Melvyn Bragg's TV programme Omnibus in 1970.

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.

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

* SS Empire Orwell, two ships

West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).

In his 1941 essay " The Lion and the Unicorn ", Orwell referred to two important sub-sections of the middle class, one of which was the military and imperialistic middle class, nicknamed the Blimps, and characterised by the " half-pay colonel with his bull neck and diminutive brain ".

Involved with hard, dangerous and health-threatening employment, the unionised and self-supporting pit-village communities in Britain have been home to more pervasive class barriers than has been the case in other industries ( for an example, see chapter two of The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell.

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!

Orwell seeks the freedom to say that two plus two equals four, as an objective fact which the Party cannot touch.

He has also won two National Magazine Awards and is a " five-time Polk winner and recipient of the 2004 George Orwell Award.

In a letter to George Woodcock on 28 September 1946, Orwell noted that there were two or three books he was ashamed of and called A Clergyman's Daughter an even worse one than Keep the Aspidistra Flying and said " it was written simply as an exercise and I oughtn't to have published it, but I was desperate for money ".

The Shire or sheriffdom of Kinross was formed in the thirteenth century when the two parishes of Kinross and Orwell were removed from the Fothriff area of Fife.

Besides Bell only Isaiah Berlin, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Albert Camus, George Orwell and Hannah Arendt, had two books so listed.

Ten years later the originals of Fenn's third and fourth volumes, with ninety-five unpublished letters, were found at Roydon Hall, Norfolk, the seat of George Frere, the head of the Frere family ; and finally in 1889 the originals of the two remaining volumes were discovered at Orwell Park, Ipswich, the residence of Captain EG Pretyman.

T. S. Eliot rejected two books by George Orwell, A Scullions Tale ( the first version of Down and Out ) and Animal Farm.

Arguably two of the finest Streamline Moderne buildings in Australia: the Minerva ( or Metro ) Theatre and the Minerva Building are in Orwell Street.

Other contributions included two essays by George Orwell, " Fascism and Democracy " and " Patriots and Revolutionaries " that condemned the Communist Party of Great Britain for backing the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 and for taking a revolutionary defeatist position in the war against Nazi Germany.

It includes the concept of two and two make five as a denial of truth by authority, a notion later used by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four

Maazel incorporates an important role for the chorus, which sings a " hate chorus " for the rallies Orwell called Two Minutes Hate, as well as a rousing " National Anthem of Oceania.