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14th November 2025 by Desmond Avery
1942 – A Well Spent Year – Index
* Desmond Avery’s 1942: A Year Well Spent, his study of George Orwell’s time at the BBC, is available in five parts… -
24th September 2017 by Desmond Avery
The Third Richard
Desmond Avery Considers the importance of a friend to George Orwell There were three Richards in George… -
6th June 2012 by Desmond Avery
1942: A Year Well Spent, epilogue
Epilogue For the pleasure of a happy ending we can leave George Orwell there enjoying a rare moment of collective euphoria. In… -
6th June 2012 by Desmond Avery
1942: A Year Well Spent, pt 3 by Desmond Avery
3 A New Vantage Point Autumn and Winter 1942 War poetry Following his own attempt at it, Orwell made war poetry the subject of… -
6th June 2012 by Desmond Avery
1942 – A Year Well Spent, pt 2 by Desmond Avery
2 A Firmer Grip on Reality Summer 1942 The real man? In May Orwell’s thoughts returned to Dickens, a fellow… -
10th May 2012 by Desmond Avery
1942 – A Year Well Spent, pt 1, by Desmond Avery
In his ‘London Letter’ to American readers dated 1 January 1942, Orwell mentions that Dylan Thomas is doing jobs for the BBC… -
26th March 2012 by Desmond Avery
1942 – A Well Spent Year by Desmond Avery
His novels up till this watershed in his writing life expressed disgust at the status quo, frustration at the apparent…
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