George Orwell Part 5

[MrSunlander]

I wish he'd lived till June.... What happened to his son?



[Molagbal38]

Love the narrator's voice!

[carsanookdotcom]

Excellent!

Content: script, narration, music and visuals!

Thanks for the upload

Bangkok Johnny

Kingdom of Thailand

[Doctor699]

This realy makes sense of where he plucked 1984 from.

[ALLthingsTV242]

Thank you thank you thank you

I fell asleep during This movie in English and I needed to rewarch it for a quiz

It ws early I ws tired

[Yammahoo]

And what about the other great novels he wrote? They are so overlooked. :(

[Icarois1]

A great personality, George Orwell. A great writer.

[miglage]

I admire George Orwell. What he wrote is essential to understand the world we are now living.

[rocksoliddude1]

@miglage world or nightmare

[manconoo]

George Orwell was a member of the fabian society along with GBS and was dismayed and appalled about the elites plans for the world. Consequently he wrote his msterpiece 1984 which is a work of fact not fiction.Big brother is everywhere..War means Peace -(Obamas Nobel peace prize) New World Order, endless war on terror etc etc.

[shirleystemple]

'Road to Wiggan Pier' and 'Down and Out' are both each a great read.

[RankAndFileGuy]

Documentary says June 21st, in te description it says January 21st. Other sources indicate January, so the narrator made a mistake.

[EvilMert]

Don't Know about TB. Going anywhere near Wigan can age you greatly. 'oribble place full of Northerners.

[Blakefe]

he would off loved wachmen

[RSFO]

I think Homage to Catalonia is a very overlooked piece of work.

[davidoffon]

@RSFO Homage to Catalonia is so good that , even though concentration is not known to me, I have read it three times and I am readying my steady bear for another glow.

[franknitty45]

@RSFO

I agree.

[ClaudioCesar]

@RSFO i agree, to me it made it very clear the partidist conflict

in Spain during the war. Really good piece of history.

[SuperSuperfan]

@RSFO I think all his work was terrific. Everyone knows him just for Animal Farm and 1984 and a few others know Homage to Catalonia. But all his work really was an amazing satire of the time. I think my favorite work by him was Keep the Aspidistra Flying.

[hedleyclive]

Solzhenitsyn wrote in The First Circle that a country with a great writer is like having a second government. Orwell was integrity in the flesh, Christ how we need his like today!

[pigmeat56481]

Sonia did not profess that she loved him. She was not the only woman to whom he proposed marriage late in his life. He told these women that it may be to their advantage to be a relatively rich literary widow. He also needed help to arrange all of his papers after his passing. I wouldn't think that intimacy was too much on his mind as he married her in the hospital he was never to leave, within 2-3 months of his death.

[goodsoninc]

A great man

[EvilMert]

He looked old for 46.

[beastatlay]

Tuberculosis, living rough, getting shot in the throat, the general hardships of life 70 years ago do tend to have that effect.

[annboylyn]

Another Reason to Vote for Ron Paul.

[pipelinepete]

Sorry, but I think Sonia, Orwell's wife for the last few weeks of his life, was a bit of a gold-digger. I really love Orwell and his work, and so hate to think he was taken advantage of by Sonia. I hope there was some intimacy between them, but I doubt it. Orwell gave to the world far more than he took. Not the same can be said for Sonia. Did she not get into another relationship a couple weeks after Orwell died? She became very wealthy on the back of Orwell's labours.

[levanszzzz]

It is not clear what better use he could have put his wealth to than this. It seemed a mutually beneficial arrangement.

[GillerMonster]

wasn't one of his teachers aldous huxley? Loved every min. thx mils

[Amyhamada]

hi it's a great video, thanks a lot !

[kiwitoffee]

Wonderful. A brief but informative and sympathetic account of Orwell's life and work. Thank you for posting it.

[ludificor]

who was the narrator? it sounds a lot like Michael Gambon, but I'm not sure; thanks.

[davidoffon]

@ludificor no, not Gambon, with him you are left in no doubt, I'm to much of a fan of his to let an hour go by without noticing.