{"id":60007,"date":"2017-10-17T21:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T01:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=60007"},"modified":"2024-04-30T13:41:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T17:41:49","slug":"george-orwell","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/george-orwell\/","title":{"rendered":"George Orwell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">George Orwell<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"wpv-view-output\" data-toolset-views-view-editor=\"f380fd876273841e5a345a00cf5d7a5f\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-toolset-views-view-editor wpv-gutenberg-view-wrapper-61885\">\n\n\n<div id=\"wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTRb1b4f4b3798a1c44924f6db7e7280d20\" class=\"js-wpv-view-layout js-wpv-layout-responsive js-wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTRb1b4f4b3798a1c44924f6db7e7280d20\" data-viewnumber=\"61885-CATTRb1b4f4b3798a1c44924f6db7e7280d20\" data-pagination=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61885&quot;,&quot;query&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;fade&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:500,&quot;speed&quot;:5,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;stop_rollover&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;cache_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_images&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_reach&quot;:1,&quot;spinner&quot;:&quot;builtin&quot;,&quot;spinner_image&quot;:&quot;\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/plugins\/toolset-blocks\/embedded\/res\/img\/ajax-loader.gif&quot;,&quot;callback_next&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;manage_history&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;has_controls_in_form&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;infinite_tolerance&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;max_pages&quot;:1,&quot;page&quot;:1,&quot;base_permalink&quot;:&quot;\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60007?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTRb1b4f4b3798a1c44924f6db7e7280d20&amp;wpv_paged=WPV_PAGE_NUM&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;data&quot;:[],&quot;id&quot;:0}}\" data-permalink=\"\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60007?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTRb1b4f4b3798a1c44924f6db7e7280d20\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n          <h2 class=\"lectureDate\">Lecture Date: February 27, 2018<\/h2>\n\n<h3>The Coldwell Banker Elite Lecture<\/h3>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/259922060\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Great Lives: Orwell, The Authorized Biography\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"topicSummary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/10\/10-Orwell-copy-185x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/10\/10-Orwell-copy-185x300.jpg 185w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/10\/10-Orwell-copy.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><p>Big Brother entered the world in 1949 as the shadowy villain in a futuristic novel written by a dying man who had almost no future left. Tuberculosis killed George Orwell a few months after the publication of his masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was only forty-six. But Big Brother\u2014his most famous character\u2014has had a surprisingly long life. For almost seventy years he has been haunting our imaginations. He is the most influential literary character of modern times, and the book\u2019s dire warning, \u201cBig Brother is watching you,\u201d is the most prophetic statement made in any novel of the last century.<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen Eighty-Four is that rarest of literary creations, the novel that grows more relevant with each passing year. But the dramatic story behind the writing of the novel is almost as fascinating as the book itself. It begins with a sniper\u2019s bullet striking Orwell in the throat while he was a volunteer soldier in the Spanish Civil War, and it ends with the author completing his book on a remote Scottish island twelve years later while a chronic disease, a family tragedy, and fears of censorship threaten to undermine his efforts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"lectureSpeaker\" style=\"padding-top: 1em;\">Speaker: Michael Shelden<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speakerInfo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/10\/Shelden-photo-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/10\/Shelden-photo-150x150.jpg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/10\/Shelden-photo-50x50.jpg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/10\/Shelden-photo-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n<p>Michael Shelden is the author of six biographies, including Mark Twain: Man in White, which was chosen as one of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2010 by the Christian Science Monitor. The film rights of his recent Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill (2013) have been optioned to Carnival Films, the UK producers of Downton Abbey.  For a dozen years Shelden was a Features Writer for the London Daily Telegraph, and for ten years he was a fiction critic for the Baltimore Sun. A popular speaker, he has recorded three sets of audio lectures for Recorded Books, including The Lost Generation: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s (2011), which AudioFile magazine praised for its \u201cbittersweet imagery . . . wry wit, passion, and humor.\u201d Translated into five languages, his 1991 biography Orwell: The Authorized Biography was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and a New York Times Notable Book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[443],"class_list":{"0":"post-60007","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-443","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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