Thursday, June 25, 2009

Happy Birthday, George


Born today in 1903, Orwell wrote Animal Farm and 1984 from his experiences in Spain with Stalinism - which taught him that any idealism carried too far became corrupt.

The Orwell Prize is putting his diary on line - day by day. Since he's been back from Morocco, it's mostly about the countryside and how many eggs his hens are laying, but it's June 1939... things are bound to get more exciting.

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