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26th July 2012 by George Orwell
Orwell the essayist: Such, Such Were the Joys
Soon after I arrived at St Cyprian’s... I began wetting my bed. I was now aged eight, so that this was a reversion to a habit… -
21st July 2012 by Orwell Society
The cultural icon of today – ‘Orwell…
Let us also be clear: Orwell was far from being a saint nor the entirely decent chap he is constantly portrayed as. There was a… -
20th July 2012 by Orwell Society
Christopher Hitchens’s introduction to George…
Vanity Fair, the magazine for which Hitchens was a columnist until his death last year, has published a preview of the late… -
8th July 2012 by George Orwell
George Orwell the essayist: Why I Write
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a… -
7th July 2012 by Gerry Abbott
Captain Robinson and the Poet
The very fact that Orwell chose to review Robbie's book may be significant. In his phrasing – 'Those who knew the author in… -
6th July 2012 by Orwell Society
Sample of new cabaret show One Georgie Orwell
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23rd June 2012 by Gerry Abbott
Tressell and Orwell
By March 1944 Animal Farm was completed, and was published in Britain the following year. It was this book that in the Fifties… -
20th June 2012 by Quentin Kopp
Homage to Catalonia, Orwell’s time in Spain revisited
Homage to Catalonia describes many of the experiences which influenced George Orwell’s later work, in particular the last two… -
14th June 2012 by Orwell Society
Orwell essay competition trialled in Greenwich
Peter Cordwell, an Orwell Society member who edits and produces the publication Royal Greenwich Time, has teamed up with the… -
14th June 2012 by George Orwell
George Orwell, the essayist: The Spike
It was late afternoon. Forty-nine of us, forty-eight men and one woman, lay on the green waiting for the spike to open. We were…
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