A collection of stories tagged 'george orwell' from NPR. http://www.reverbiage.com/ Copyright 2006 Reverbiage.com. Reverbiage is not affiliated with NPR nor its member stations. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:40:35 EST Previously unpublished George Orwell diaries are being released online as a daily blog. The first entry, from Aug. 9, 1938, will appear online Saturday, exactly 70 years after Orwell wrote it. The diaries shed light on European history and Orwell's life. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/53944 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93420286&ft=1&f=1032 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:00:00 EDT Jack Kerouac, George Orwell and Sylvia Plath are just a few of the authors whose books were turned down by the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house. Researchers going through the Knopf archives have come across their rejection letters, as well as a few others. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/39467 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14453550&ft=1&f=1032 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:39:00 EDT Most people these days think of George Orwell as the author of high school reading staples Animal Farm and 1984. But author Lawrence Wright says that Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language," is the piece of writing to which he most often returns. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/23953 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6124822 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:49:00 EDT George Orwell's famous novel Animal Farm was published 60 years ago Wednesday. Alex Chadwick pays tribute to the dark satire of the novel, which uses animals to depict the worst aspects of Russia's Bolshevik Revolution and the rise of communist dictator Joseph Stalin. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/3388 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4803830 Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:00:00 EDT A new book explores Myanmar's people and brutal military junta by retracing George Orwell's path through Burma, where he lived as a young man in the 1920s. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/3718 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4761169 Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:00:00 EDT