The last person to see George Orwell alive was probably the poet Paul Potts. Finding his friend asleep in his sickroom in University College Hospital, London, Potts left a packet of tea for him.
Orwell was planning to take it on a restorative trip to Switzerland. That night, January 21 1950, an artery burst in Orwell’s lungs and killed him.
Seventy years after an author dies, the copyright on their fiction expires. Expect an explosion now of rights-free versions of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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