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  • Thumbnail for George Orwell
    critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place, the River Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose,...
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  • TS Pretoria (redirect from SS Empire Orwell)
    of Pretoria Photo of Empire Orwell Photo of Empire Orwell Photo of Gunung Djati British Pathé newsreel of Empire Orwell returning troops from Korea Painting...
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  • Tonsberg Hvalfangeri and became its first manager in 1910; later Master of SS Orwell, a whaling factory ship.  This article incorporates public domain material...
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    SS Arandora Star, originally SS Arandora, was a British passenger ship of the Blue Star Line. She was built in 1927 as an ocean liner and refrigerated...
    31 KB (3,556 words) - 14:28, 9 October 2024
  • George Orwell. "Shopkeepers At War" First published: The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius. London: February 19, 1941. Orwell, George...
    69 KB (8,628 words) - 05:25, 31 October 2024
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    liner Potsdam, captured and converted into a British troopship. Empire Orwell, formerly the German cargo liner Pretoria, captured and converted into a...
    75 KB (8,354 words) - 03:42, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Dresden (1896)
    SS Dresden was a British passenger ship which operated, as such, from 1897 to 1915. She is known as the place of the 1913 disappearance of German engineer...
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  • Thumbnail for Donald Pleasence
    screen career, which included starring in a 1954 BBC adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, before playing numerous supporting and character...
    49 KB (3,294 words) - 00:00, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Stratheden
    SS Stratheden was a UK-built steam turbine ocean liner. She spent most of her career with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, including...
    45 KB (4,702 words) - 22:51, 16 August 2024
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    p. 31. Orwell, George. "Mein Kampf" review, reprinted in The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Vol 2., Sonia Orwell and Ian...
    90 KB (9,658 words) - 17:26, 31 October 2024
  • Sir Richard Rees, 2nd Baronet (category George Orwell)
    to George Orwell among others. He was the inspiration for the wealthy Ravelston, publisher of the socialist magazine Antichrist, in Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra...
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  • fascism." Later, in 1944, the anti-fascist and socialist writer George Orwell commented on Tribune that fascism had been rendered almost meaningless by...
    53 KB (5,138 words) - 18:03, 7 November 2024
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    militaristic symbols. According to the anti-fascist and socialist writer George Orwell, the term fascist is oftentimes rendered meaningless in common parlance...
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  • SS Doric Star was a British cargo liner operated by the Blue Star Line from 1922 to 1939, when she was intercepted and sunk by the German pocket battleship...
    14 KB (1,367 words) - 11:42, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for H. G. Wells
    lamented by younger authors whom he had influenced. In this connection, George Orwell described Wells as "too sane to understand the modern world", and "since...
    127 KB (13,967 words) - 09:01, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dione Venables
    novelist and publisher who is probably best known as the founder of The Orwell Society. Dione Patricia Mary Gordon-Finlay was born prematurely in the Prestwood...
    27 KB (2,848 words) - 01:43, 12 October 2024
  • Ipswich (1864) Ipswich (1883) Kilkenny Lady Tyler Malines Munich Norfolk Norwich Orwell Princess of Wales Richard Young Rotterdam Roulers St Denis St George Stockholm...
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    dates the first draft to 1919. Orwell, George (4 January 1946). "Review of WE by E. I. Zamyatin". Tribune. London – via Orwell.ru. Originally published in...
    158 KB (13,391 words) - 17:51, 7 November 2024
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    770 Orwell in Tribune: 'As I Please' and Other Writings 1943–7 by George Orwell (Compiled and edited by Paul Anderson) Politicos, 2006 George Orwell, "...
    151 KB (17,635 words) - 13:39, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for P. G. Wodehouse
    Machine, Hansard, 6 December 1944, Vol. 406, cols 499–502 Orwell, p. 299 Orwell, p. 289 Orwell, p. 296 Green (1981), p. 203 McCrum, p. 358 Wilson, Benji...
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