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Orwell

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

Orwell

Lazy functional language, Miranda-like. List comprehensions and pattern matching. "Introduction to Orwell 5.00", P.L. Wadler et al, Programming Research Group, Oxford U, 1988.

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Therefore, if Orwell was concerned not only with the individual abuse of power (as per Crothers) but also with crafting suitable institutions to account for that potential, then Orwell's concerns were essentially the same as those of Public Choice.

George Orwell as a public choice economist

Orwell wrote of a man who "couldn't afford to buy fuel and ate his food raw".

Children have hypothermia, houses have no carpets, the food bank hands out 1,000 parcels a month, levels of poverty are soul-destroying ...Orwell would weep if he could see Wigan now; George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier documented the working people in the 1930s. The Sunday Mirror retraces his appalling living conditions of steps and finds life's still hard

We suspect that dragging Orwell into it won't matter much in the end, except to intrigue some additional readers to check out his books, in whatever format.

Orwellian marketing; Amazon.com does Hachette job on history

Richard was only 10 months when she died and friends suggested to Orwell that he simply "unadopt" him.

Dad and I could have died off Jura and 1984 would never have been written.. but it always draws me back; GEORGE ORWELL SON TELLS OF FAMILY'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH ISLE Pilgrimage on anniversary of author's most famous work

It's a damn shame that the popular knowledge of Orwell is so myopically limited to Big Brother and "four legs good, two legs bad," because Orwell's essay, (https://www.

Memo To Media: George Orwell Wrote Other Stuff Besides '1984'

The Unexamined Orwell is not a study of Orwell's published work but rather an investigation of various aspects of the "myth" of George Orwell, including the profound influence this myth has had on his followers over the past half century.

SHAPING ORWELL'S REPUTATION

Orwell is wonderful on boy's weeklies and how to make a cup of tea.

Nightmares that endure

Unlike Orwell, however, it might be argued that Mr Armstrong appears less interested in finding the truth of the situation than in confirming his belief that the desperate conditions of the 1930s are being repeated, indeed, may even be worse as the UK struggles to recover from its latest recession.

REVISITING ORWELL'S TRIP TO WIGAN PIER

What's more, they show Orwell to be nearly Jeffersonian in his combined passion for politics and for the natural world, not merely for fishing but also for the enlightened and fervent cultivation of vegetables, fruit trees, animals and flowers.

Diaries

com)-- Literary travellers have the chance to follow the trail of writer George Orwell in Myanmar this winter.

Discovering George Orwell's Burma Tours Start This Year in Myanmar

George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on June 25, 1903, in Bengal, India, where his father, Thomas, worked in the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Service.

Humanist profile: George Orwell (1903-1950)

I was puzzled by the review of my book, The Unexamined Orwell, by Chilton Williamson ("No More Orwells," March 2012) because it is less a review than it is a litany of ad hominem criticisms conducted by someone whom I've never met.