Orwell

[ awr-wel, -wuhl ]

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George Eric Arthur Blair, 1903–50, English novelist and essayist.

Orwell

/ ˈɔːwəl; ɔːˈwɛlɪən; -wɛl /

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OrwellGeorge19031950MEnglishWRITING: novelistWRITING: essayist George, real name Eric Arthur Blair. 1903–50, English novelist and essayist, born in India. He is notable for his social criticism, as in The Road to Wigan Pier (1932); his account of his experiences of the Spanish Civil War Homage to Catalonia (1938); and his satirical novels Animal Farm (1945), an allegory on the Russian Revolution, and 1984 (1949), in which he depicts an authoritarian state of the future

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Derived Forms

Orwellian, adjective

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The biography prize went to Laura Beers for “Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century.”

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Orwell narrowed it down to the Edwardian era — 1901 to 1919 — long before the irruptions of two world wars and the Great Depression.

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Either explanation would be, as George Orwell might have put it, doubleplusungood.

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It almost claimed the life of writer George Orwell and his son after their boat capsized while he was staying on Jura writing his dystopian novel 1984 in the 1940s.

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It doesn’t, of course, because Trump’s commitment to “free speech” has long been fraudulent doublespeak, to borrow once more from Orwell, even as the media frequently indulges that framing.

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Orville Orwellian

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