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Gangrel: ‘Why I Write’
Why I Write is one of Orwell’s most widely-read, quoted and anthologised essays. It was published during the summer of 1946 in the fourth and final issue of Gangrel. What can we learn from examining the “pamphlet” where it first appeared besides that the title is a Scots word (from Anglo-Saxon) meaning “tramp”? When George […]
Orwell & Truth
“But the thread that runs through all of Orwell’s writing is his obsession with getting to the truth. If it meant trashing friendships or jeopardising his own success, so be it. In the political magazine Tribune, he wrote in 1944 that ‘almost nobody seems to feel that an opponent deserves a fair hearing or that […]
The Rebellion of the Beasts
“Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. And among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle. All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.” Animal Farm (1945) “This high-minded speech of the deputy hackney-coach-horse seemed to electrify all present; and a most touching scene took place, of the […]
Fading Ink: Melancholy & Archives
“Came home to hear [illegible] Eric Blair is dead.” Jack Common Archival research into the melancholic world of the past, where nearly everyone who lives on the page is long dead, can be incredibly poignant – no matter how long ago the events being recovered took place. Turning the pages of Jack Common’s near illegible […]
Blair’s Hut & the Invention of the Romantic Alps
“On the spot where we were standing is a small cabin, built of stones loosely piled together, as a shelter for travellers, which in joke has been named “The Castle of Mont Anvert.” An Englishman of the name of Blaire, who is residing at Geneva, has caused a more spacious one to be built at […]
One Scroll of Parchment
“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” George Orwell The information wrestled from the record of an 18th century Chancery suit (Blair v Drake 1754) involving Orwell’s great-great-grandfather has been crucial for unlocking some previously closed research doors. This one scroll of parchment helped with several pieces of the […]
Lachlan Shand
Hi, is there any material by Orwell not found in his “complete works” that you could please send to my email. Thank you.