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Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell, the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, always described himself as coming from an Anglo-Indian family.
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Why I Write is one of Orwell’s most widely-read, quoted and anthologised essays.
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“But the thread that runs through all of Orwell’s writing is his obsession with getting to the truth.
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“Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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“Came home to hear [illegible] Eric Blair is dead.”
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“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.”
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“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
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Raoul Peck’s ambitious new documentary pays homage to George Orwell’s intellectual achievement by exploring contemporary manifestations of the authoritarianism the writer so deplored.
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“Siegfried Charoux was a man of many gifts and warm friendships.
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George Orwell, who wrote for The Observer, described it as “the enemy of nonsense”.