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Hace 4 días · George Orwell — ‘If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.’
Hace 3 días · George Orwell was an 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.
- George Orwell wrote the political fable Animal Farm (1944), the anti-utopian novel Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), the unorthodox political treatise T...
- George Orwell won scholarships to two of England’s leading schools, Wellington and Eton colleges. He briefly attended the former before transferrin...
- George Orwell was brought up in an atmosphere of impoverished snobbery, first in India and then in England. His father was a minor British official...
- George Orwell wrote two hugely influential novels: Animal Farm (1944), a satire that allegorically depicted Joseph Stalin’s betrayal of the Russian...
Hace 1 día · Born Eric Blair in 1903, Orwell had a short but prolific writing career, chronicling politics, poverty and social injustice before his early death from tuberculosis in January 1950, just seven ...
Hace 5 días · George Orwell — ‘If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.’
Hace 2 días · Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism.
Hace 1 día · Orwell/Goldstein references the Marxist concept of “over-production,” which Marx saw as evidence of the inefficiency of the capitalist system and one cause of economic crises. Over-production exists in the sense that the supply of a certain product can exceed demand, to which the standard response is to reduce prices.
Hace 5 días · In 1945, when Orwell was looking for a quiet place in the country, David Astor, his close friend and editor of the Observer, told him about Jura, where his family owned a deer-shooting lodge. Sixteen miles off the west coast of Scotland, Jura then had about 250 people and 4,000 deer. The hardship, bleakness and isolation of Jura appealed to ...
