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Hitchens makes ‘an Orwell pilgrimage’…

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Gofblog

Daily Mail journalist and commentator Peter Hitchens – star panellist of the George Orwell Festival Debate ‘What would Orwell write about today?’ that took place in Letchworth in front of a capacity audience last Friday evening – has blogged about … Continue reading →

Posted in Events, Orwell today, Speakers, Uncategorized | Tagged Animal Farm, Big Brother, Corinna Ferguson, Daily Mail, Down and out in Paris and London, George Orwell, Gordon Bowker, journalism, Letchworth, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Peter Hitchens, POUM, Rabinder Singh, Road to Wigan Pier, Spanish Civil War, Vitali Vitaliev, Wallington | Leave a comment

Re. Henry Miller’s changing jacket…

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Gofblog

Passing through Paris en route to the Spanish Civil War in December 1936, Orwell dropped in on expatriate American writer Henry Miller at his studio in Villa Seurat. Orwell had praised Miller’s novel ‘Tropic of Cancer’ (1934), and the two had … Continue reading →

Posted in Orwell oddities | Tagged Barcelona, corduroy, Eric Blair, George Orwell, Henry Miller, jackets, Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista, POUM, Spain, Spanish Civil War | Leave a comment

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Hitchens makes ‘an Orwell pilgrimage’…

Re. Henry Miller’s changing jacket…

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