Horizon, October 1941 The role of writers to-day, when every free nation and every free man and woman is threatened by the Nazi war-machine, is a matter of supreme importance. Creative writers, poets, novelists and dramatists have a skill, imagination and human understanding which must be utilized as fully as the skill of journalists....
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The last letter among Orwell’s papers from a well-wisher was from the critic and literary journalist Desmond MacCarthy (1877-1952). He said that he had written two letters which he had torn up because they did not express what he really wished to say. Now that he was meeting Sonia for lunch, he was sending...
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George Orwell wrote a statement on Nineteen Eighty-Four in mid-June 1949 following misunderstandings about his intentions in the book. These arose especially from an article in the New York Daily News which, he had been told, interpreted his novel as an attack on the Labour government. The statement was prepared and delivered by his publisher...
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George Orwell was seriously ill with tuberculosis and left the Isle of Jura (Scotland) in early January 1949 for Cotswold Sanatorium (Cranham, Gloucestershire). He was a patient there until 3 September 1949 when he was transferred to University College Hospital, London. Orwell died of pulmonary tuberculosis at U.C.H. on 21 January 1950. Report by...
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Written 17 April 1940 for Twentieth Century Authors, ed. Stanley J. Kunitz and H. Haycraft, N.Y., W. H. Wilson & Co., 1942. I was born in 1903 at Motihari, Bengal, the second child of an Anglo-Indian family. I was educated at Eton, 1917-21, as I had been lucky enough to win a scholarship, but...
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E. A. Blair K.S. Bought this Book Much against his will For the study of Milton a poet for whom he had no love;
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