ORWELL Definition & Meaning

Orwell

[awr-wel, -wuhl]

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noun

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

Orwell

/ ˈɔːwəl, ɔːˈwɛlɪən, -wɛl /

noun

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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Orwellian adjective

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As George Orwell observed in his 1946 essay “Why I Write”: “The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.”

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He won the Paul Foot Award and Orwell Prize for his later groundbreaking work with the Times, and was also named 2014 Journalist of the Year.

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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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