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

" Rodden refers to the essay " Why I Write ", in which Orwell refers to the Spanish Civil War as being his " watershed political experience ", saying " The Spanish War and other events in 1936 – 37, turned the scale.

On the communist role in Spain, Hobsbawm writes simply that " its pros and cons continue to be discussed in the political and historical literature ", and refers to Orwell, not by his literary name, but as " an upper-class Englishman called Eric Blair ".

In Orwell's Victory, Christopher Hitchens argues, " In answer to the accusation of inconsistency Orwell as a writer was forever taking his own temperature.

Fyvel wrote about Orwell: " His crucial experience ... was his struggle to turn himself into a writer, one which led through long periods of poverty, failure and humiliation, and about which he has written almost nothing directly.

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 ".

In 1928, Orwell began his career as a professional writer in Paris at a journal owned by the French Communist, Henri Barbusse.

George Orwell said that Maugham was " the modern writer who has influenced me the most.

However, K. Čapek is comparable with Aldous Huxley and George Orwell as a speculative fiction writer, distinguishing his work from genre-specific hard science fiction.

After giving up his post as a policeman in Burma to become a writer, Orwell moved to rooms in Portobello Road, London at the end of 1927.

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:

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.

* George Orwell, writer, lived at 27b Canonbury Square

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

But with this difference, that Orwell is a born writer, whereas Engels, fiery and splendid spirit though he was, simply wasn't a writer.

The writer Eric Blair chose the pen name under which he would later become famous, " George Orwell ", because of his love for the river.

A significant English writer in the 1930s and 1940s was George Orwell ( 1903 – 50 ), who is especially remembered for his satires of totalitarianism, Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) and Animal Farm ( 1945 ).

An established anti-imperialist writer, Orwell promotes the idea that, through imperialism, both conqueror and conquered are destroyed.

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.

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.

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

The writer George Orwell served with the party and witnessed the Stalinist repression of the movement, which would form his anti-totalitarian ideas in later life.

Burmese Days is a novel by British writer George Orwell.

Sonia Mary Brownell ( 25 August 1918 – 11 December 1980 ) was the second and last wife of writer George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair.

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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.

A prominent critic was George Orwell, who frequently referred to him in his essays and diaries as " A Catholic Apologist " and accused him of being " silly-clever ", in line with his criticisms of G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Ronald Knox and Wyndham-Lewis.

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.

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From 1942 to 1944 George Orwell was a proponent of Basic English, but in 1945 he became critical of universal languages.

In his essay " Politics and the English Language ", George Orwell observes that political language serves to distort and obfuscate reality.

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.

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George Orwell uses Ecclesiastes ( specifically 9: 11 ) prominently in Politics and the English Language to exemplify the qualities of " good English.

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 '".

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* George Orwell ( 1903 – 50 ).

* Animal Farm ( 1945 ) by George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair ( 25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950 ), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist.

He was also spending time with Eleanor Jacques, but her attachment to Dennis Collings remained an obstacle to his hopes of a more serious relationship. The pen-name " George Orwell " was inspired by the River Orwell

Four days later, he wrote to Moore, suggesting the pseudonyms P. S. Burton ( a name he used when tramping ), Kenneth Miles, George Orwell, and H. Lewis Allways.

He finally adopted the nom de plume George Orwell because, as he told Eleanor Jacques, " It is a good round English name.

", which has since been widely attributed to Orwell ; see Bibliography of George Orwell.

Such a company " George Orwell Productions Ltd " ( GOP Ltd ) was set up on 12 September 1947 although the service agreement was not then put into effect.

Other writers admired by Orwell included: Ralph Waldo Emerson, G. K. Chesterton, George Gissing, Graham Greene, Herman Melville, Henry Miller, Tobias Smollett, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and Yevgeny Zamyatin.

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