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George Orwell


(Eric Arthur Blair)
UK flag (1903 - 1950)

George Orwell was born in Bengal and educated at Eton; after service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living penning novels and essays. He was essentially a political writer who focused his attention on his own times, a man of intense feelings and intense hates. An opponent of totalitarianism, he served in the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Besides his classic Animal Farm, his works include a novel based on his experiences as a colonial policeman, Burmese Days, two firsthand studies of poverty, Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier, an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Catalonia; and the extraordinary novel of political prophecy whose title became part of our language, 1984.
 

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Burmese Days (1934)
   A Clergyman's Daughter (1935)
   Keep The Aspidistra Flying (1936)
   Coming up for Air (1939)
   Animal Farm (1945)
   Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
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George Orwell recommends
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Ashenden (1928)
W Somerset Maugham
"The modern writer who has influenced me most."

Anthologies containing stories by George Orwell
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Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter (2015)
In Praise of Brevity
edited by
Elizabeth Cooperman and David Shields

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