Darcy Moore

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.

Why I Write is one of Orwell’s most widely-read, quoted and anthologised essays.

“But the thread that runs through all of Orwell’s writing is his obsession with getting to the truth.

“Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

“Came home to hear [illegible] Eric Blair is dead.”

“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.”

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”

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.

“Siegfried Charoux was a man of many gifts and warm friendships.

George Orwell, who wrote for The Observer, described it as “the enemy of nonsense”.