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George Orwell


Born
in Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India
June 25, 1903

Died
January 21, 1950

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Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both fascism and stalinism), and support of democratic socialism.

Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the
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Animal Farm

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Animal Farm / 1984

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Down and Out in Paris and L...

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Homage to Catalonia

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Burmese Days

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The Road to Wigan Pier

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Keep the Aspidistra Flying

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Coming up for Air

3.78 avg rating — 22,009 ratings — published 1939 — 11 editions
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Why I Write

4.01 avg rating — 15,678 ratings — published 1946 — 12 editions
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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
George Orwell, 1984

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell, 1984

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell

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