george orwell

Interesting slant on the Penguin 2013 cover for Orwell's 1984: The Cover of George Orwell’s 1984 Becomes Less Censored with Wear & Tear

Eric Arthur Blair pen names: George Orwell. born Bengal, India: 25 June 1903 died Oxfordshire, England: 21 January 1950 George Orwell was the pseudonym of the Indian-born English author of novels, poems and essays. He was also a journalist and critic. His literary work covers politics...

Recently I read The Illustrated Man by Bradbury for the first time and was surprised by how saturated it was with fear of the Bomb and of technology. The collection was published in 1951, only six year after the end of World War 2: The Soviets had only had the bomb for ~4 years, and wouldn't...

For everyone wanting some fun and jollity, Radio 4 is doing a serialised reading of George Orwell's novel 1984. I've heard some of it and thought that the reading was very good. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pz054/episodes/guide

I thought of this due to the topic of evil. Maybe there is some other work prior to Orwell which actually is the catalyst but I can't think of any. You could say this is a coincidental "zeitgeist" situation but maybe Orwell's book caused a flurry of inspiration that triggered authors to explore...

Here is a selection of George Orwell's essays, available to read for free and uploaded with the permission of his estate. Highly recommended. https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/

Tell here about your experiences of reading George Orwell's writing other than his half-dozen novels. He was a superb essayist -- almost everyone knows "Shooting an Elephant" and "Politics and the English Language" -- but there's a lot more to his nonfiction than these familiar items. I'll...

These are: Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and Coming Up for Air. Coming Up for Air is my favorite of the four, the story of George Bowling, with a lavish recreation of his boyhood and an evocation of his (and the novelist's) present just before World War 2...

This subforum is dedicated to Literary Fiction, but I don't think we have a better place to start a thread on essays. By essay I'm referring to prose pieces short enough to be read comfortably in an hour or so, usually less. The tone is generally informal; an essay doesn't sound like an...

21st July 2009 05:03 AM David Allen The thing about writing a bestselling novel that has been turned into films and is regarded as a warning to all freethinking people, is that sometimes what may appear to be fiction can often turn out to be closer to the truth. Take George Orwell’s “1984”...

Here's a fascinating obscure article by George Orwell I've stumbled upon. Though its focussed mainly on the wartime politics of its day, its also a sort of prototype for a certain kind of blog or forum post often seen in modern SF. Basically, the...

Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the very few SFF novels to have made the leap not just to mainstream acceptability but to being regarded as literature. This was probably because George Orwell was not really a genre writer, he was primarily interested in using fiction, sometimes including...

If you ask me (and for the record, nobody ever does, even if I prompt them with a question like that) there is a little bit of overlap among the lists of best SF books ever written, and the best novels ever written, probably by five or six books. I'm sure that a few out there will find that a...

BBC NEWS | UK | MI5 confused by Orwell's politics : "MI5 monitored socialist writer George Orwell for more than two decades, but did not believe he was a mainstream communist, records have revealed."

i know the book mightnt fit in this forum ( i think i could make an arguement to make it fit) but i just wanted to share my enjoyment of this story. i was blown away by the complexity of the ideals proposed within the book, and although they are complex, they make sense and are easy to get your...

Nineteen Eighty-Four The ultimate totalitarian state. Where lives are recorded and people are impersonalised. We watch as one person, Winston Smith, tries to break free of the constraint and realises the futility. A main stay of schools English literature for years. And a dire warning for...