By Jean Seaton In 1948 George Orwell’s instructions for getting to Jura were off-putting. It took two days from Glasgow. The description of the alternative trains, buses, ferries, boats which ended, once you had got to Jura, with taxis, walking 8 miles or a boat (and walking) to get to his house, Barnhill, took 19…Read more JURA 2016
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The Euston Road Group
By Sonia Brownell [Transcribed from Horizon Volume III, No. 17, May 1941] On May 17th an exhibition of paintings by the Euston Road Group will be opened at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and will continue for two months. This has been organised by the Contemporary Art Society, whose work since the war deserves great praise…Read more The Euston Road Group
George Orwell: The Complete Poetry
Written by: George Orwell Narrated by: Greg Wise, Dione Venables Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins Unabridged Audiobook This title is scheduled to be released on 26/07/2016 This anthology has been in the making for some years in the mind of the editor, Dione Venables, founding member of The Orwell Society. In 2006 she contributed…Read more George Orwell: The Complete Poetry
Through An Artist's Eye: Felicia Browne and the Spanish Civil War
Through An Artist's Eye is an Arts Council funded project - an artistic and poetic response to the life and work of British artist Felicia Browne, who volunteered in the Republican militia at the start of the Spanish Civil War in the Summer of 1936. Tragically she lost her life on her first mission, aged…Read more Through An Artist's Eye: Felicia Browne and the Spanish Civil War
Not Hampstead But Hong Kong: George Orwell and the Booksellers
[Our anniversary articles have identified the stylistic similarities between George Orwell's Keep The Aspidistra Flying and his bleaker and better known Nineteen Eighty-Four. Professor Douglas Kerr of Hong Kong University points out more disturbing connections between the two in the real world now] When Gordon Comstock, in Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying, went to work…Read more Not Hampstead But Hong Kong: George Orwell and the Booksellers
Keep the Aspidistra Flying: Getting Closer to the Original Text
By Richard Young In 1945 George Orwell reviewed his career and wrote notes to his literary executor: two of his novels should never be republished. The first was A Clergyman's Daughter. The other was Keep the Aspidistra Flying ('Aspidistra') which he described as a ‘silly potboiler’ he should never have written. By 1945 Aspidistra had…Read more Keep the Aspidistra Flying: Getting Closer to the Original Text
