Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as though they were three characters finally in conversation […]
My walk through Cumbria, in England, has been everything I hoped and the weather smiled benevolently for the whole journey. Unbelievably, my goretex remained in the […]
'Down and Out in Paris and London' was banned in Australia until 1953. #Orwell himself made a note of the fact in 1949 for his literary executors. #Orwelltrivia
currently reading 1984 for the umpteenth time, it's still th…
Lot of stuff about Blair that I have never read before, as a…
An interesting article Darcy. While rue Cardinal Lemoine is…
Brilliant post Darcy. It is so true that students need a lib…
Thanks Richard. I checked out your blog and particularly enj…
“I request that no memorial service be held for me after my death and that no biography of me shall be written.” (Eric Blair, 18 January 1950) “Perhaps Orwell was […]
I want to show you our world as it is now: the door, the floor, the water tap and the sink, the garden chair close to the wall beneath the […]
“I came back to America in 1939, in October, but do not feel that I am at home yet. New York has been most inhospitable – and I am a […]
“Actually, most of my previous publications listed in ‘Their Brilliant Careers’ are made up! It’s all part of the joke. The only real one is ‘The Weight of a Human […]
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Tombs: Sharing Orwell’s Penchant for Puncturing Shibboleths
This review originally appeared in George Orwell Studies Volume 3 Number 2. George Orwell continues to have an extraordinary influence on how the English view England, writes […]