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9th November 2021 by L.J. Hurst
‘Such, Such Were The Joys’ Book Launch
In this week’s joint Orwell Society and Pluto Press online event Sean Michael Wilson and Jaime Huxtable, the two authors… -
30th October 2021 by L.J. Hurst
The Points of Writing
Extracted from his essays on why he wrote, and the problems he identified and solutions he suggested to writing well, here are… -
23rd October 2021 by L.J. Hurst
A Missing Chronology
This article is being written on October 23rd, 2021: today is the anniversary of the Creation of the World on October 23rd, 4004… -
16th October 2021 by L.J. Hurst
Churchill and the “Remarkable” Book
Published a day apart, George Orwell’s last articles concerned the two figures who had played a large part in his thinking. In… -
9th October 2021 by L.J. Hurst
The Points of ‘Nationalism’
George Orwell’s “Notes On Nationalism” was written during his period as a war correspondent in the late spring of 1945. It… -
3rd October 2021 by L.J. Hurst
Reporting from the Ruins
George Orwell’s war reports have never been collected before in one volume, although Penguin published four themed volumes of… -
18th September 2021 by John P. Lethbridge
Down the Memory Hole
Introduction. In his article Mark Twain – The Licensed Jester (Tribune, 26 November 1943), George Orwell praises Samuel… -
4th September 2021 by L.J. Hurst
That Frightful Drilling
When I’ve mixed with chaps from the upper classes, as I did during the war, I’ve been struck by the fact that they never… -
21st August 2021 by John P. Lethbridge
The Real Slade
A historical figure from the American Wild West made a strong and distasteful impression on George Orwell; so much so that he… -
1st August 2021 by Carol Biederstadt
Good Book or “Good Bad Book”?
Revisiting Orwell’s Review of Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth * Pearl Buck’s classic novel of China, The Good Earth, was…
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