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Hace 3 días · Nowadays, the George Orwell Society organises a tour of the places where Orwell spent the Civil War every two years. This route, led by his son, Richard Blair , and Quentin Kopp , son of Orwell’s commander ( Georges Kopp ), begins in Barcelona, recalling the events of May 1937, and ends in Aragon.
Hace 2 días · Orwell's grave in All Saints' parish churchyard, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire. 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.
13 de may. de 2024 · “It was not the man’s brain that was speaking it was his larynx. The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words but it was not speech in true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness like the quacking of a duck.” ― George Orwell, 1984
19 de may. de 2024 · George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), the fictionalized but autobiographical Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War.
9 de nov. de 2020 · George Orwell — ‘The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.’
13 de may. de 2024 · “Beasts of England” is the song that Old Major teaches to the other animals as a philosophy of Animalism. The song played a vital role in firing up the other animals in their pursuit of rebellion and freedom from humans. Like other speeches of Old Major, his song is anti-human and arouses the sentiments of all the animals.
After a bullet in the throat took Orwell out of the war, his attention shifted to the grand-scale hypocrisies he’d detected in the Soviet Union. It became “of the utmost importance to me that people in western Europe should see the Soviet regime for what it really was,” he writes in the preface to the ...
