Articles | Orwell and His Work

Articles: Orwell and His Work

  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 28th April 2012 by Peter Davison

    Peter Davison on parallels between George Orwell &…

    Parallel Worlds: George Orwell and Vasily Grossman, by Peter Davison Hearing John Baker speak at the PEN Conference in London in…
  • 28th April 2012 by Philip Bounds

    Orwell and the Paranormal

      George Orwell sometimes complained that the English were incapable of intellectual consistency. One of the areas in which his…
  • 6th March 2012 by Rachel Halliburton

    Casting a modern eye on A Clergyman’s Daughter

    Casting a modern eye on Orwell’s A Clergyman’s Daughter.By Rachel Halliburton. Could Dorothy Hare exist in the 21st…
  • 3rd March 2012 by Dominic Cavendish

    A few thoughts on Orwell, Kipling and left-baiting

    Thoughts on “Rudyard Kipling” by George Orwell (Horizon, February 1942) The Society website has recently republished an…
  • 8th February 2012 by Richard Lance Keeble

    Orwell, Astor – and me

    Professor Richard Lance Keeble, Acting Head of the Lincoln School of Journalism, recalls his interview with David Astor, the…
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