{"id":331,"date":"2015-06-08T13:02:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T13:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=331"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:46:21","slug":"june-8th-1949-nineteen-eighty-four-published-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-331 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?attachment_id=332'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_nphuw6qVzb1r65o3qo2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-332\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-332'>\n\t\t\t\tGeorge Orwell (1903 &#8211; 1950)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?attachment_id=333'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tumblr_nphuw6qVzb1r65o3qo3_400-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-333\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-333'>\n\t\t\t\tFirst edition of 1984 (1949)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/todayinhistory.tumblr.com\/post\/121015678605\/june-8th-1949-nineteen-eighty-four-published-on\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">todayinhistory<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><b>June 8th 1949: <i>Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/i> published<\/b><br \/><\/h2>\n<p><small>On<br \/>\n this day in 1949, the famous novel <i>Nineteen Eight-Four <\/i>by English writer George Orwell was published. Born Eric Arthur Blair, he penned his first<br \/>\npoem when he was four years old, and had his first poem published in a<br \/>\nnewspaper at age eleven. Blair studied at the prestigious Eton school,<br \/>\nand went on to work for the imperial police in Burma. After he returned<br \/>\nto England, he adopted the pseudonym George Orwell and published his<br \/>\nfirst book &#8211; <i>Down and Out in Paris and London<\/i> &#8211; in<br \/>\n1933. Even in his early works Orwell demonstrated a keen interest in<br \/>\npolitical issues, and offered a sharp critique of the British class<br \/>\nsystem and colonialism. In 1936 he joined the international brigades<br \/>\nfighting in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Republicans,<br \/>\nagainst the fascist Francisco Franco. He was injured in the fighting in<br \/>\nSpain, and his health didn\u2019t improve when he returned to England, where<br \/>\nhe was diagnosed with tuberculosis. He continued to write, and worked<br \/>\nfor the BBC as a propagandist during the Second<br \/>\nWorld War, before resigning in 1943. It was after he left the BBC that<br \/>\nOrwell wrote his two most famous works &#8211; <i>Animal Farm<\/i> (1945), and <i>Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/i> (1949).<br \/>\n The latter is a dystopian novel, set only<br \/>\nthirty-five years after it was written, that envisioned a world<br \/>\ncharacterised by excessive government control and curtailment of civil<br \/>\nliberties. This novel, which followed protagonist Winston Smith, introduced several phrases into the lexicon that<br \/>\nare still used today, including \u2018Big Brother\u2019, \u2018doublethink\u2019, &lsquo;Room<br \/>\n101\u2019, and &#8216;thought-police\u2019. Orwell achieved great success with these two<br \/>\n works, but sadly lost his ongoing struggle with tuberculosis in 1950.<\/small><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b><i>\u201cHe who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.\u201d\u00a0 <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>todayinhistory: June 8th 1949: Nineteen Eighty-Four published On this day in 1949, the famous novel Nineteen Eight-Four by English writer George Orwell was published. Born Eric Arthur Blair, he penned his first poem when he was four years old, and had his first poem published in a newspaper at age eleven. 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