George Orwell Blogging From Beyond the Grave

The Orwell Trust (together with Political Quarterly and the Media Standards Trust) has begun posting daily entries from George Orwell's diaries exactly 70 years after he wrote them. Thus, the first entry was August 9th, 1938 ("Caught a large snake in the herbaceous border beside the drive..."). The entries are annotated and tagged. It is quite brilliant.

NPR has a nice bit about it and the geeks are pleased, too.

From the site's announcement post:

From 9th August 2008, you will be able to gather your own impression of Orwell’s face from reading his most strongly individual piece of writing: his diaries. The Orwell Prize is delighted to announce that, to mark the 70th anniversary of the diaries, each diary entry will be published on this blog exactly seventy years after it was written, allowing you to follow Orwell’s recuperation in Morocco, his return to the UK, and his opinions on the descent of Europe into war in real time. The diaries end in 1942, three years into the conflict.