111 Langford Court Abbey Road London NWS 8 April 1941 Dear Mr Jones, Many thanks for your letter.1 Perhaps in one or two cases I expressed myself rather ambiguously and can make things clearer by answering some of your queries. 1. “The U.S.A. will need a year to mobilize its resources even if Big...
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Cranham Lodge, Cranham, Gloucester 24 July 1949 Dear Moore, Thank you for your letter of the 22nd. With regard this business of a Russian translation of Animal Farm. I should like to hear some more about the negotiations you have in hand, because there are two points that arise. In the first place,...
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Tribune, 22 March 1946 Many recent statements in the press have declared that it is almost, if not quite, impossible for us to mine as much coal as we need for home and export purposes, because of the impossibility of inducing a sufficient number of miners to remain in the pits. One set of...
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The Ukrainian translation of Animal Farm was intended for Ukrainians living in the camps for Displaced Persons in Germany under British and American administration after World War II. These, as indicated in a letter from the man who organised the translation and distribution, Ihor Szewczenko, were people who supported the October Revolution and who...
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Partisan Review, July-August 1943. Completed by Orwell in late May 1943. Dear Editors, I begin my letter just after the dissolution of the Comintern, and before the full effects of this have become clear. Of course the immediate results in Britain are easy to foretell. Obviously the Communists will make fresh efforts to affiliate...
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Partisan Review, March-April 1943. Completed by Orwell on 3 January 1943. Dear Editors, It is just on two years since I wrote you my first letter. I wrote that one to the tune of A.A. guns, when we were in desperate straits and also on what appeared to be the edge of rapid political advance....
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Proposed preface to Animal Farm, first published in the Times Literary Supplement on 15 September 1972. The pagination of the proofs for Animal Farm shows that space was left for Orwell’s preface (titled: The Freedom of the Press) but it was not included in the final edition. Animal Farm was first published in London...
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Written by D. S. Savage, George Woodcock, Alex Comfort and George Orwell. Published in Partisan Review, September-October 1942. D. S. SAVAGE: A few brief comments on George Orwell’s March-April London Letter. It is fashionable nowadays to equate Fascism with Germany. We must fight Fascism, therefore we must fight Germany. Thus Mr Orwell: “the greater...
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World War I (WWI) or First World War (called at the time the Great War) was a major war centered on Europe that began in the summer of 1914. The fighting ended in November 1918. This conflict involved all of the world’s great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centered around the...
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Polemic, January 1946. The Atlantic Monthly, March 1947. Recorded as completed in Orwell’s Payments Book on 12 November 1945. About a year ago I attended a meeting of the P.E.N. Club, the occasion being the tercentenary of Milton’s AREOPAGITICA— A pamphlet, it may be remembered, in defense of freedom of the press. Milton’s famous...
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