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George Orwell

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born

June 25, 1903 in Motihari, Bihar, India

died

January 21, 1950

gender

male

website

http://www.george-orwell.org/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

influences

W. Somerset Maugham, Trotsky, Dickens, H.G. Wells, Jack London, Huxley...more

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Eric Arthur Blair,better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language, and a belief in democratic socialism.

Considered perhaps the twentieth century's best chronicler of English culture, Orwell wrote fiction, polemical journalism, literary criticism and poetry. He is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (published in 1949) and the satirical novella Animal Farm (1945)—they have together sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author. His 1938 book Homage to Catalonia, an account of his exper...more

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Books by George Orwell

Average rating: 3.84 · 1,176,680 ratings · 25,874 reviews · 127 distinct works

	Animal Farm 3.69 avg rating — 602,699 ratings — published 1945 — 292 editions	My rating:
	1984 4.01 avg rating — 530,086 ratings — published 1949 — 335 editions	My rating:
	Animal Farm & 1984 by George Orwell, Christopher Hitchens (Introduction) 3.96 avg rating — 10,572 ratings — published 1991 — 28 editions	My rating:
	Down and Out in Paris and London 4.04 avg rating — 9,384 ratings — published 1940 — 57 editions	My rating:
	Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, Lionel Trilling (Introduction) 4.13 avg rating — 5,436 ratings — published 1938 — 55 editions	My rating:
	Burmese Days 3.74 avg rating — 3,051 ratings — published 1934 — 51 editions	My rating:
	Keep the Aspidistra Flying 3.82 avg rating — 2,411 ratings — published 1936 — 35 editions	My rating:
	The Road to Wigan Pier 3.76 avg rating — 1,857 ratings — published 1937 — 30 editions	My rating:
	Shooting an Elephant 4.01 avg rating — 1,426 ratings — published 1931 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Collection of Essays 4.27 avg rating — 1,291 ratings — published 1954 — 8 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by George Orwell

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

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“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom , ignorance , inspirational , war

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What frequently challenged or banned CLASSIC book should we read in July?

(We will select two books but you can read either, both or none of course.)

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

24 votes 22.9%

1984 by George Orwell

16 votes 15.2%

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

15 votes 14.3%

Native Son by Richard Wright

12 votes 11.4%

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

9 votes 8.6%

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

9 votes 8.6%

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

8 votes 7.6%

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

6 votes 5.7%

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

4 votes 3.8%

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

2 votes 1.9%

105 total votes

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