Nice article on one of the influential persons of the last 60 years!
Why Orwell Endures
By GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT
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He has worn well for other reasons, of course. His deathbed fortune came with “1984,” which has been plausibly described by Robert Harris (another notable political novelist) as the most influential novel ever written. No other can have so enriched the language. Try a Web search for countless contemporary uses of Newspeak, the thought police or doublethink — the expressions, that is: a glance at the political pages or op-ed columns provides plenty of examples of what those brilliant coinings describe.
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via Essay – Why Orwell Endures – NYTimes.com.