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

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.

In Part 2 of The Road to Wigan Pier, published by the Left Book Club, Orwell stated: " a real Socialist is one who wishes – not merely conceives it as desirable, but actively wishes – to see tyranny overthrown.

In 1942, commenting on journalist E. H. Carr's pro-Soviet views, Orwell stated: " all the appeasers, e. g. Professor E. H. Carr, have switched their allegiance from Hitler to Stalin.

Writing in the spring of 1945 a long essay titled " Antisemitism in Britain ," for the Contemporary Jewish Record, Orwell stated that anti-Semitism was on the increase in Britain, and that it was " irrational and will not yield to arguments.

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 ).

On sending the typescript to Warburg, Orwell stated that he had written the " long autobiographical sketch " partly as a " sort of pendent " to the publication in 1938 of Enemies of Promise, an autobiographical work by Cyril Connolly, and at Connolly's request.

" 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.

Orwell stated that he was not sure if McGill was a real person or simply a trade name but concluded that in spite of the vulgarity and the artistic merits of the cards, he would be sorry to see them go.

" 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.

If the book itself, Animal Farm, had left any doubt of the matter, Orwell dispelled it in his essay Why I Write: ' Every line of serious work that I ’ ve written since 1936 has been written directly or indirectly against Totalitarianism ... dot, dot, dot, dot.

In his 1938 essay " Why I joined the Independent Labour Party ," published in the ILP-affiliated New Leader, Orwell wrote:

Why Orwell Matters was published by Christopher Hitchens in 2002.

Why Orwell Matters.

Orwell himself was to note in Why I Write ( 1946 ) that " I wanted to write enormous naturalistic novels with unhappy endings, full of detailed descriptions and arresting similes, and also full of purple passages in which my words were used partly for the sake of their sound.

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

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.

Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels " ( 1946 ) Orwell wrote: " If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.

Moreover, Orwell expressed some scepticism about religion: " It seems rather mean to go to HC Communion when one doesn't believe, but I have passed myself off for pious & there is nothing for it but to keep up with the deception.

On anarchism, Orwell wrote in The Road to Wigan Pier: " I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and the people can be trusted to behave decently if you will only let them alone.

Orwell in Tribune: ' As I Please ' and Other Writings.

Orwell was a democratic socialist and a left-libertarian sympathizer who expressed solidarity with the anarchist movement and social revolution, later commenting, " I had told everyone for a long time past that I was going to leave the P. O. U. M.

" When it came to marrying, Orwell wrote to Gorer that " I should never be economically justified in marrying, so might as well be unjustified now as later ".

He suggests, for instance, that Orwell may exaggerate the visceral contempt that the English middle classes hold for the working class, adding, however, that, " I may be a bad judge of the question, for I am a Jew, and passed the years of my early boyhood in a fairly close Jewish community ; and, among Jews of this type, class distinctions do not exist.

In general, early reviewers of The Road to Wigan Pier praised Orwell ’ s depiction of the working class in Part I.

In Tribune on March 12, 1937, Walter Greenwood calls Part I “ authentic and first rate ” but was more ambivalent towards Part II: “ Part II, Orwell has you with him one moment and provoked beyond endurance the next.

Laski claims that Part I is “ admirable propaganda for our ideas ” but that Part II falls short: “ But having, very ably, depicted a disease, Mr Orwell does what so many well-meaning people do: needing a remedy ( he knows it is socialism ), he offers an incantation instead.

He also mentions that " a traveller will hardly understand me, especially a seaman, when I speak of the River Stour and the River Orwell at Harwich, for they know them by no other names than those of Maningtre-Water, and Ipswich-Water ".

Orwell clearly states his displeasure with colonial Britain: " I had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing ...

Orwell and O ' Shaughnessy met at a party that Eric ( Orwell ) and Rosalind Obermeyer, gave in the spring of 1935 in Obermeyer's flat in Parliament Hill Road-" when the last guests had departed, he turned to Mrs Obermeyer and said: " Eileen O ' Shaughnessy is the girl I want to marry.

During the winter of 1945 to 1946 Orwell made several hopeless and unwelcome marriage proposals to younger women, including Celia Kirwan ( who was later to become Arthur Koestler's sister-in-law ), Ann Popham who happened to live in the same block of flats and Sonia Brownell, one of Connolly's coterie at the Horizon office.

Orwell suffered a tubercular haemorrhage in February 1946 but disguised his illness.

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.

His sister Marjorie died of kidney disease in May and shortly after, on 22 May 1946, Orwell set off to live on the Isle of Jura.

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

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.

George Orwell wrote about the song in his 1946 essay Riding Down from Bangor.

" Politics and the English Language " ( 1946 ) is an essay by George Orwell criticising " ugly and inaccurate " contemporary written English.

George Orwell in Politics and the English Language ( 1946 ) criticized the use of euphemisms and convoluted phrasing as a means of hiding insincerity.

The back cover featured an out-of-context quote from George Orwell in 1946, and a recent quote from a NotW reader.

* George Orwell, Politics and the English Language ( 1946 )

In The Observer of March 10, 1946, Orwell wrote that “ fter the Moscow conference last December, Russia began to make a ‘ cold war ’ on Britain and the British Empire .”

" 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.

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 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.

Between 1941 and 1946 Orwell wrote fifteen " London Letters " for the Review, the first of which appeared in the March-April 1941 issue.

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.

" A Nice Cup of Tea " is an essay by British writer George Orwell, first published in the Evening Standard newspaper of 12 January 1946.

In his 1946 essay " Politics and the English Language ", George Orwell wrote: Bad writers – especially scientific, political, and sociological writers – are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

In 1946 he made a bleak visit to George Orwell on Jura.

In 1946, writer George Orwell wrote an impassioned essay, " Politics and the English Language ", criticising what he saw as the dangers of " ugly and inaccurate " contemporary written English – particularly in politics where pacification can be used to mean "... defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets ...".