Author

George Orwell

1903–1950 · Novelist and essayist

Eric Blair took the name George Orwell and wrote some of the clearest prose in English: novels of poverty and empire, the Spanish war seen from the trenches, and the two books that named totalitarianism for everyone, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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11 works

Animal Farm
George Orwell
- English
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
George Orwell
- English
Burmese Days
George Orwell
- English
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
- English
The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell
- English
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
- English
A Clergyman's Daughter
George Orwell
- English
Coming Up for Air
George Orwell
- English
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
- English
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
George Orwell
- English
Shooting an Elephant
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- English