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.

In April, Orwell returned to Barcelona.

Orwell returned to England in June 1937, and stayed at the O ' Shaughnessy home at Greenwich.

Orwell returned to Wallington, which he found in disarray after his absence.

Orwell returned to London in late 1946 and picked up his literary journalism again.

" Having witnessed the success of the anarcho-syndicalist communities, for example in Anarchist Catalonia, and the subsequent brutal suppression of the anarcho-syndicalists, anti-Stalin communist parties and revolutionaries by the Soviet Union-backed Communists, Orwell returned from Catalonia a staunch anti-Stalinist and joined the Independent Labour Party, his card being issued on 13 June 1938.

Orwell left Paris in December 1929 and returned to England, going straight home to his parents ' house in Southwold.

After Orwell returned from Paris in December 1929, he used his parents ' house in Southwold as his base for the next five years.

When sharing a flat with Orwell, Heppenstall came home late one night in an advanced stage of loud inebriation.

It was in the home of Mabel Fierz, who had, with her husband, a London businessman named Francis, been for a number of years a visitor to Southwold in the summer, and who was on friendly terms with the Blairs, that Orwell discarded the typescript.

The writer George Orwell ( then known as Eric Blair ) spent time as a teenager and in his thirties in Southwold, living at his parents ' home.

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

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.

He was creative about institutional politics, as ' The Reform of Parliament ' ( 1964 ) makes clear, but his biography of Orwell, well-researched and competent, operated at the middle range of political theory with which ( at least on one view – nothing is uncontroversial ) he was most at home.

Heppenstall once came home drunk and noisy, and when Orwell emerged from his bedroom and asked him to pipe down, Heppenstall took a swing at him.

He taught French for a year at Eton, where Eric Blair ( later to become George Orwell ) and Stephen Runciman were among his pupils, but was remembered as an incompetent and hopeless teacher who couldn ’ t keep discipline.

In the essay section of his novel 1985, Anthony Burgess states that Orwell got the idea for Big Brother from advertising billboards for educational correspondence courses from a company called Bennett's, current during World War II.

In 2000, after the U. S. version of the CBS program " Big Brother " premiered, the Estate of George Orwell sued CBS and its production company " Orwell Productions, Inc ." in federal court in Chicago for copyright and trademark infringement.

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.

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.

The Committee also presented the George Orwell Award for Honesty and Clarity in Public Language for 1975-76 to Professor Hugh Rank who created the pattern.

George Orwell wrote in 1944 that " the word ' Fascism ' is almost entirely meaningless ... almost any English person would accept ' bully ' as a synonym for ' Fascist '".

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.

A colleague, Roger Beadon, recalled ( in a 1969 recording for the BBC ) that Orwell was fast to learn the language and that before he left Burma, " was able to speak fluently with Burmese priests in ' very high-flown Burmese.

'" Orwell wrote later that he felt guilty about his role in the work of empire and he " began to look more closely at his own country and saw that England also had its oppressed ..." Orwell made changes to his appearance in Burma that remained for the rest of his life.

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

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

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.

Orwell was also able to find a more sympathetic publisher for his views in Frederic Warburg of Secker & Warburg.

In the latter part of his stay at the clinic Orwell was able to go for walks in the countryside and study nature.

Myers secretly funded a trip to French Morocco for half a year for Orwell to avoid the English winter and recover his health.

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

Orwell also submitted his name to the Central Register for war effort but nothing transpired.

Orwell was declared " unfit for any kind of military service " by the Medical Board in June, but soon afterwards found an opportunity to become involved in war activities by joining the Home Guard.

Gollancz feared the second half would offend readers and added a disculpatory preface to the book while Orwell was in Spain.

In March the Orwells moved to St John's Wood in a 7th floor flat at Langford Court, while at Wallington Orwell was " digging for victory " by planting potatoes.

In 1945 or early 1946, while still living at Canonbury Square, Orwell wrote an article on " British Cookery ", complete with recipes, commissioned by the British Council.

Study aids, in particular with potted biographies, might be seen to help propagate the Orwell myth so that as an embodiment of human values he is presented as a " trustworthy guide ", while examination questions sometimes suggest a " right ways of answering " in line with the myth.

The ambiguity in his belief in religion mirrored the dichotomies between his public and private lives: Stephen Ingle wrote that it was as if the writer George Orwell " vaunted " his atheism while Eric Blair the individual retained " a deeply ingrained religiosity ".

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.

In Burma, he struck out at a Burmese boy who while " fooling around " with his friends had " accidentally bumped into him " at a station, with the result that Orwell " fell heavily " down some stairs.

An affectionate obituary tribute in The Guardian commented, " He loved cricket ... and played it ardently and very badly ", while in a review of Cricket Country, George Orwell described him as " the true cricketer ":

) Orwell wrote Coming Up for Air while he was in North Africa and left the manuscript at his agent's office within a few hours of arriving back in England on 30 March 1939.

George Orwell, who adopted this pseudonym while living here, lived and worked in 1932-3 as a schoolmaster at The Hawthorns High School for Boys, situated on Church Road.

However Gollancz feared the second half would offend Left Book Club readers and inserted a mollifying preface to the book while Orwell was in Spain.

The essay describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma.

In his biography of Orwell, Michael Shelden called the article " his most important essay on style ", while Bernard Crick made no reference to the work at all in his original biography, reserving his praise for Orwell's essays in Polemic, which cover a similar political theme.

" The writers Stansky and Abrahams, while noting that the character Flory probably had his roots in Captain Robinson, a cashiered ex-officer whom Orwell had met in Mandalay, ' with his opium-smoking and native women ', affirmed that Flory's " deepest roots are traceable to fiction, from Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim through all those Englishmen gone to seed in the East which are one of Maugham's better-known specialities.

She was awarded the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 1996, while working at The Observer.

Then, Onslow spotted Admiral Hipper, also to the rear of the convoy, and steered to intercept with Orwell, Obedient and Obdurate, while Achates was ordered to stay with the convoy and make smoke.

In the piece, Orwell describes his experiences between the ages of eight and thirteen, in the years before and during World War I, while a pupil at a preparatory school: St Cyprian's, in the seaside town of Eastbourne, in Sussex.

Orwell also claims that he was accepted as a boarder at St Cyprians – at half of the usual fees – so that he might earn a scholarship that would look good in the school's publicity, and that his training relied heavily on the use of beatings, while the rich boys received preferential treatment and were exempted from corporal punishment.

Orwell headed the school prize list in 1916 with Classics, while Cyril Connolly won the English prize, Cecil Beaton won the drawing prize, Walter Christie won the history prize and Rupert Lonsdale won the scripture prize.

" Andrew Clark of the Financial Times stated that the " only reason we find this slick perversion of Orwell on the Covent Garden stage is because super-rich Maazel bought his way there by stumping up the production costs ," while Rupert Christiansen in the Daily Telegraph dismissed it as " operatic fast food.