George Orwell (Credit: AP)
Orwell died in London in January 1950, nearly six months after the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the magnum opus he wrote on the Scottish island of Jura. In 1946, he rented Barnhill, an isolated farm on this sparsely populated island, with about 200 inhabitants. The farm had no electricity, no telephone, no forms of luxury and was accessible only on foot or by motorbike, seven kilometers from the nearest hamlet. He described this remote retreat as “an extremely un-get-atable place” where he could escape the demands of the world and work in absolute freedom on his new novel. Read more Lebanese women poets: A century of unheard voices In this place, buffeted by Atlantic storms, where it can rain for a hundred days straight, he did more than just write. He lived there almost self-sufficiently with his sister Avril and his young,...
Orwell died in London in January 1950, nearly six months after the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the magnum opus he wrote on the Scottish island of Jura. In 1946, he rented Barnhill, an isolated farm on this sparsely populated island, with about 200 inhabitants. The farm had no electricity, no telephone, no forms of luxury and was accessible only on foot or by motorbike, seven kilometers from the nearest hamlet. He described this remote retreat as “an extremely un-get-atable place” where he could escape the demands of the world and work in absolute freedom on his new novel. Read more Lebanese women poets: A century of unheard voices In this place, buffeted by Atlantic storms, where it can rain for a hundred days straight, he did more than just write. He lived there almost self-sufficiently with his sister Avril and his...