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Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and polemical journalism. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, are widely acclaimed, as are his essays on politics, literature, language, and culture. In 2008, The Times ranked him second on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING (Comple...
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set...
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DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON (...
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Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published...
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ANIMAL FARM (Completed)
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Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. Accordi...
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