Orwell, George

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1. The nom de plume of Eric Blair, a twentieth-century English author best known for Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four is a powerful depiction of totalitarianism; hence, the adjective Orwellian has been applied to government actions that suppress freedom or distort truth.

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They explain why a player who has used the window Twitter opens on to his world to convey the impression of a rebellious, sushi eating, semi-intellectual, fans' champion bravely standing up to the club's somewhat parsimonious board as he quotes Friedrich Nietzsche, George Orwell, George Washington and Morrissey, is available on a free transfer.

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Novelist Jean Rhys, who died in 1979, and Sonia Orwell, George Orwell's widow, who died a year later, have been observed in the distorting half-light of their declining days, when illness and alcoholism had served to dim the mind and obscure the spirit.

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