George Orwell was the pseudonym adopted by Eric Arthur Blair, a boy who was born in India in 1903, where his father was a British colonial official. Back to England he studied at Eaton ...
Busy researching a biography of Cyril Connolly, I was surprised to come across a note from George Orwell to his old school friend suggesting that they should review each other’s most recent books on ...
thou for wine and oil for the wounds of the distressed […] 1740, James Blair, Our Saviour's divine sermon on the mount [...] explained, volume 3, page wring into our mouths. 1933 January 9, George ...