Orwell in a sentence

Eileen Orwell, first wife of writer George Orwell, whom adopted a son together, Richard.

A Reader's Guide to George Orwell, Jeffrey Meyers, Thames & Hudson, p. 142 Orwell requested the change after he met Joseph Czapski in Paris in March 1945.

At the same time, the communist Daily Worker was running an attack on The Road to Wigan Pier, misquoting Orwell as saying "the working classes smell"; a letter to Gollancz from Orwell threatening libel action brought a stop to this.

Burgess operated more in the mode of Orwell, who had a good command of Urdu and Burmese (necessary for Orwell's work as a police officer) and Kipling, who spoke Hindi (having learnt it as a child).

Cyril Connolly The Evening Colonnade – George Orwell I Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973 Orwell agreed with this assessment.

D. J. Taylor Orwell: The Life Chatto & Windus 2003 Publication Orwell's first version of Down and Out was called "A Scullion's Diary".

Early on the morning of 21 January, an artery burst in Orwell's lungs, killing him at age 46. citation Orwell had requested to be buried in accordance with the Anglican rite in the graveyard of the closest church to wherever he happened to die.

Final months and death University College Hospital in London where Orwell died Orwell's health had continued to decline since the diagnosis of tuberculosis in December 1947.

In Orwell's Victory, Christopher Hitchens argues, "In answer to the accusation of inconsistency Orwell as a writer was forever taking his own temperature.

Maung Htin Aung George Orwell and Burma in Miriam Goss The World of George Orwell Weidenfield & Nicholson 1971 One of his former pupils recalled being beaten so hard he could not sit down for a week.

Orwell did not wish to publish under his own name Eric Blair, and Orwell was the name he used from then on for his main works—although many periodical articles were still published under the name Eric Blair.

Orwell Remembered, p.23 Connolly remarked of him as a schoolboy, "The remarkable thing about Orwell was that alone among the boys he was an intellectual and not a parrot for he thought for himself".

Orwell spent time in Wallington and Southwold working on a Dickens essay and it was in July 1939 that Orwell's father, Richard Blair, died.

Orwell's time as a bookseller is commemorated with this plaque in Hampstead In June, Burmese Days was published and Cyril Connolly's review in the New Statesman prompted Orwell (as he then became known) to re-establish contact with his old friend.

Richard Mayne, The World of George Orwell p42-43 Orwell fell seriously ill in March 1929 and shortly afterwards had money stolen from the lodging house.

Stephen Spender in Stephen Wadhams Remembering Orwell Penguin Books 1984 A friend of Eileen's reminisced about her tolerance and humour, often at Orwell's expense.

Why Orwell Matters (released in the UK as Orwell's Victory) was published by Christopher Hitchens in 2002.

A talented songwriter, bassist and performer, they played in several bands – most recently – and were responsible for transforming the Orwell’s waning Thursday night open mic into a bustling, packed-out event each week.

Even someone as esteemed as George Orwell would have been surprised at how his satirical novel “1984” would somehow become a manual for the people controlling society, the media, government and now the internet.

Funder revisits episodes familiar from Orwell’s accounts and flips the perspective, retracing the stories back to the sources to show us Eileen’s role – most obviously in her careful reconstruction of the time they spent in Spain in 1936.