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.

The case was Estate of Orwell v. CBS, 00-c-5034 ( ND Ill ).

On the eve of trial, the case settled worldwide to the parties ' " mutual satisfaction "; the amount that CBS paid to the Orwell Estate was not disclosed.

Mukiwa won the Apple / Esquire / Waterstones award, and the Orwell Prize.

The AONB covers ancient woodland, commercial forestry, the estuaries of the Alde, Blyth, Deben, Orwell and Stour rivers, farmland, salt marsh, heathland, mudflats, reed beds, small towns and villages, shingle beaches and low eroding cliffs along 60 miles of coastline.

Animal Farm had been published in August 1945 and Orwell was experiencing a time of critical and commercial literary success.

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.

On the arrival of a British ILP Contingent about three weeks later, Orwell and the other English militiaman, Williams, were sent with them to Monte Oscuro.

In an autobiographical piece that Orwell sent to the editors of Twentieth Century Authors in 1940, he wrote: " The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence.

Having evaded Edward's fleet, which had been sent to intercept them, Isabella and Mortimer landed at Orwell on the east coast of England on 24 September with a small force ; estimates of Isabella's army vary from between 300 to around 2, 000 soldiers, with 1, 500 being a popular middle figure.

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.

George Orwell ’ s biographer Gordon Bowker relates how English communist David Crook, an ostensible volunteer for the Republican side, was sent to Albacete where he was taught Spanish and also given a crash course in surveillance techniques by Ramón Mercader.

He attacked England in 1010, landing near Ipswich on the shores of the river Orwell at Nacton with a large army, defeating the local army sent from Ipswich.

Once at the front, the initial group of twenty-five was sent to the front at Monte Oscuro, within sight of Zaragoza, some 12 miles to the south west, where they joined by a number of others who had arrived at the front a few weeks earlier, including Eric Blair, not yet using his pen name George Orwell ; an Australian, Harvey Buttonshaw ; US Revolutionary Workers League member Wolf Kupinski ; and Bob Williams, a Welshman married to a Spanish woman who joined up with his brother-in-law, Ramon.

Not wishing to commit himself until he'd seen the situation in situ, Orwell instead used his Independent Labour Party contacts to get a letter of introduction to John McNair in Barcelona.

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.

Despite returning several times, Orwell was characteristically acerbic about his time in Hayes, camouflaging it lightly as West Bletchley in Coming Up for Air, as Southbridge in A Clergyman's Daughter, and joking in a letter to author / friend Frank Jellinek:

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

He exchanged public correspondence with George Orwell defending pacifism in the open letter / poem " Letter to an American Visitor " under the pseudonym " Obadiah Hornbrooke.

Orwell chooses five specimen pieces of text, by Harold Laski (" five negatives in 53 words "), Lancelot Hogben ( mixed metaphors ), an essay on psychology in Politics (" simply meaningless "), a communist pamphlet (" an accumulation of stale phrases ") and a reader's letter in Tribune (" words and meaning have parted company ").

" In a letter of 1946, Orwell said " I dare say it's unfair in some ways and inaccurate in some details, but much of it is simply reporting what I have seen.

Orwell received a letter from the anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer as follows

In a letter to Brenda Salkeld, Orwell himself disowned it as ' tripe ', " except for chap 3, part 1, which I am pleased with ..." and prevented it being reprinted during his lifetime.

In a letter to Henry Miller a week after the book's publication in the US ( August 1936 ) Orwell described the book as " bollox ", though he added that he'd made some useful experiments with it.

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 ".

George Orwell, in reply to a letter from Philip Rahv requesting names of possible contributors for PR, offered the following: Alex Comfort, Henry Treece, Alun Lewis, William Rogers, G. S. Fraser, Roy Fuller, Kathleen Raine, who all contributed to Poetry London.

Some ten years later, the Dewey Commission was cited in great detail, when in an open letter to the British press dated 25 February 1946, written by George Orwell and signed by Arthur Koestler, C. E. M. Joad, Frank Horrabin, George Padmore, Julian Symons, H. G. Wells, F. A. Ridley, C. A. Smith and John Baird, among others, it was suggested that the Nuremberg Trials then underway were an invaluable opportunity for establishing " historical truth and bearing upon the political integrity " of figures of international standing.

Among those who went to Spain was Eric Blair ( better known as George Orwell ) and it is known that Fenner Brockway wrote a letter of recommendation for Blair to present to the ILP representatives in Barcelona.

In his letter to Warburg, Orwell wrote that he thought his essay " really too libellous to print ", adding that it should be printed " when the people most concerned are dead ".

'" 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.

Animal Farm struck a particular resonance in the post-war climate and its worldwide success made Orwell a sought-after figure.

However, Orwell pointed out that its proprietor François Coty also owned the right-wing dailies Le Figaro and Le Gaulois, which the Ami de Peuple was supposedly competing against.

Its position on the estuaries of the Stour and Orwell rivers and its usefulness to mariners as the only safe anchorage between the Thames and Humber led to a long period of maritime significance, both civil and military.

The Orwell and its source the Gipping together find the sea at Ipswich.

He does not make a convincing middle-aged, overweight, suburban-dwelling, low-brow insurance salesman, and the book is at its best when Orwell is ' out-of-character ', speaking in a voice which is recognisably his rather than an imitation of ' Fatty ' Bowling's.

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 ".

Orwell himself is suspicious of technological progress for its own sake and thinks it inevitably leads to softness and decadence.

Arthur Calder-Marshall ’ s March 20, 1937 review in Time and Tide celebrates Orwell ’ s achievement, and can be summarized by its first line: “ Of Mr Orwell ’ s book, there is little to say except praise .”

Orwell spins out to its last conclusion the illusion that the fate of freedom depends mainly on the colour of the ruling party.

The River Gipping is the source river for the River Orwell in the county of Suffolk in East Anglia, England, which gave its name to the former Gipping Rural District and the village of Gipping.

Aside from its technical uses, it occurs frequently in literature, particularly in scholarly addenda: e. g., " Faustus had signed his life away, and was, ipso facto, incapable of repentance " ( re: Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus ) or " These prejudices are rooted in the idea that every tramp ipso facto is a blackguard " ( re: George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London ).

Terry Eagleton praised its demystification of political language but later became disenchanted with Orwell.

George Orwell, who fought with the POUM in the civil war, reports that its membership was roughly 10, 000 in July 1936, 70, 000 in December 1936, and 40, 000 in June 1937, although he notes that the numbers are from POUM sources and are probably exaggerated.

Cecil Beaton, who was at the school with Orwell, had a different reaction, describing the work as " Hilariously funny-but exaggerated " Orwell's essay has been dissected in detail and its reliability questioned by Pearce.

Kathar with its luxuriant vegetation, described by Orwell with relish, provided the physical setting for the novel.

Although many of its regular speakers are non-mainstream, Speakers ' Corner was frequented by Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, George Orwell, C. L. R. James, Ben Tillett, Marcus Garvey, Kwame Nkrumah and William Morris.

The film and its accompanying auditory and visual cues ( which include a grinding noise that Orwell describes as " of some monstrous machine running without oil ") are a form of brainwashing to Party members, attempting to whip them into a frenzy of hatred and loathing for Emmanuel Goldstein and the current enemy superstate.

The remnants of these gardens helped give the area its leafy character, and many of the mansions are commemorated through street names such as Roslyn, Orwell and Kellett.

Fergal Keane's Orwell Prize-winning account of his journey through Rwanda during the genocide and its aftermath.