The firm advised Orwell to establish a company to own his copyright and to receive his royalties and set up a " service agreement " so that he could draw a salary.

Mulk Raj Anand has said that, at the BBC, Orwell could, and would, quote lengthy passages from the Book of Common Prayer.

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.

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.

In 1790, there were plans for a link from Bury St Edmunds to the River Orwell at Mistley, which John Rennie surveyed, but it involved heavy engineering work, including a tunnel, and the estimated cost of £ 75, 000 could not be raised.

* In a letter of 1938, George Orwell mentions an " anti-war pamphlet " that he had written earlier that year but could not get published.

Orwell suggests six elementary rules that if followed will prevent the type of faults he illustrates although " one could keep all of them and still write bad English.

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.

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.

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.

Mr Wilkes also believed Orwell could win an Eton scholarship and would benefit from Eton College life and so he sat the Eton exam as well.

In his 1937 book The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell said that Sheffield ' could justly claim to be called the ugliest town in the Old World '.

David Janssen ( March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980 ) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive ( 1963 – 1967 ), the starring role in the 1950s hit detective series Richard Diamond, Private Detective ( 1957 – 60 ), and as Harry Orwell on Harry O.

For his political writings on doublespeak and hypocrisy, Noam Chomsky received the Orwell Award ( which ' recognizes writers who have made outstanding contributions to the critical analysis of public discourse ') in 1987 and 1989.

" Down and Out in Paris and London was published on 9 January 1933, as Orwell continued to work on Burmese Days.

The relationship was sometimes awkward and Orwell and Heppenstall even came to blows, though they remained friends and later worked together on BBC broadcasts.

Orwell was now working on Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and also tried unsuccessfully to write a serial for the News Chronicle.

On 31 January 1936, Orwell set out by public transport and on foot, reaching Manchester via Coventry, Stafford, the Potteries and Macclesfield.

Orwell took over the tenancy and moved in on 2 April 1936.

Orwell married Eileen O ' Shaughnessy on 9 June 1936.

At the end of the year, concerned by Francisco Franco's Falangist uprising, ( supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ), Orwell decided to go to Spain to take part in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side.

Orwell set out for Spain on about 23 December 1936, dining with Henry Miller in Paris on the way.

The subsequent campaign of lies and distortion carried out by the Communist press, in which the POUM was accused of collaborating with the fascists, had a dramatic effect on Orwell.

Unable to speak, and with blood pouring from his mouth, Orwell was carried on a stretcher to Siétamo, loaded on an ambulance and after a bumpy journey via Barbastro arrived at the hospital at Lleida.

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.

At the same time, the communist Daily Worker was running an attack on The Road to Wigan Pier, misquoting Orwell as saying " the working classes smell "; a letter to Gollancz from Orwell threatening libel action brought a stop to this.

They rented a villa on the road to Casablanca and during that time Orwell wrote Coming Up for Air.

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.

In August 1941, Orwell finally obtained " war work " when he was taken on full-time by the BBC's Eastern Service.

At the BBC, Orwell introduced Voice, a literary programme for his Indian broadcasts, and by now was leading an active social life with literary friends, particularly on the political left.

Orwell was on staff until early 1945, writing over 80 book reviews as well as the regular column " As I Please ".

David Astor was instrumental in arranging a place for Orwell on Jura.

In imitation of Jack London, whose writing he admired ( particularly " The People of the Abyss "), Orwell started to explore slumming the poorer parts of London.

Early in 1941 he started writing for the American Partisan Review and contributed to Gollancz ' anthology The Betrayal of the Left, written in the light of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact ( although Orwell referred to it as the Russo-German Pact and the Hitler-Stalin Pact ).

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.

Throughout his life Orwell continually supported himself as a book reviewer, writing works so long and sophisticated they have had an influence on literary criticism.

" Ben Wattenberg stated: " Orwell ’ s writing pierced intellectual hypocrisy wherever he found it.

In his essay Politics and the English Language ( 1946 ), Orwell wrote about the importance of precise and clear language, arguing that vague writing can be used as a powerful tool of political manipulation because it shapes the way we think.

* " Politics and the English Language " ( 1946 ), by George Orwell, criticizing the use of verbose language in contemporary political British writing.

", 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.

Yet, writing to Jack Common in April 1936 about setting up shop, " Orwell sounds hard put to find £ 20 in order to stock his shelves, rather than like a man who had received £ 500 a couple of months earlier.

* Orwell Prize, British prize for political writing

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

" Orwell believed that, because this writing was intended to hide the truth rather than express it, the language used was necessarily vague or meaningless.

The headmaster's wife at St Cyprian's School, Mrs. Cicely Vaughan Wilkes ( nicknamed " Flip "), taught Orwell English and used the same method to illustrate good writing to her pupils.

Walter John Christie, who followed Orwell to Eton, wrote that she preached the virtues of " simplicity, honesty, and avoidance of verbiage ", and pointed out that the qualities Flip most prized were later to be seen in Orwell ’ s writing.

Orwell said it was easy for his contemporaries to slip into bad writing of the sort he described and that the temptation to use meaningless or hackneyed phrases was like a " packet of aspirins always at one's elbow.

Orwell criticises bad writing habits which spread by imitation.

This is particularly the case in political writing when Orwell notes that " rthodoxy ... seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style.

David Brin ’ s writing on The Transparent Society re-imagined the societal consequences of radical transparency remixing Orwell ’ s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Orwell was tutoring and writing at Southwold and he resumed his sporadic expeditions going undercover as a tramp in and around London.

In Suffolk, she befriended Richard and Ida Blair at Southwold, the parents of George Orwell, and later helped Orwell find lodgings in London in 1927, taking a vague interest in his writing, of which she was generally critical.

Peter Keller, one of the Orwell Prize judges, described Hitchens's writing as being " as firm, polished and potentially lethal as a Guardsman ’ s boot.