If you’re like me, the genius of George Orwell was lost upon you when you were sitting in your high school english class, counting the seconds until freedom and scratching your initials into your desk, while you were supposed to be reading and appreciating classics like “Animal Farm”
For me, it wasn’t until after graduation that I went back to re-read these writings from Orwell. It wasn’t until then that, after I had a bit of life experience on my resume, that I was able to actually understand what he was writing about. It wasn’t until then that I was able to appreciate and respect Orwell for writing about the topics he did, in the way he presented them, at the unsteady period in time he was forced to endure.
That’s why it’s so cool that The Orwell Prize is releasing his diary entries in blog form.
The Orwell Prize, Britain’s pre-eminent prize for political writing, is publishing George Orwell’s diaries as a blog. From 9th August 2008, Orwell’s domestic and political diaries (from 9th August 1938 until October 1942) will be posted in real-time, exactly 70 years after the entries were written.
…The diaries are exactly as Orwell wrote them. Where there are original spelling errors, they are indicated by a ° following the offending word.
For those of you who live, breathe and eat with your RSS reader handy, you can subscribe to the feed and read George Orwell’s daily ruminations without having to remember the blog address.