George Orwell






George Orwell

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born
June 25, 1903

died
January 21, 1950

gender
male

place of birth
Motihari, Bihar, India

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genre
Literature & Fiction

influences
W. Somerset Maugham, Trotsky, Dickens, H.G. Wells, Jack London, Huxley, Henry Fielding, Zola, Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, Tom Wintringham, Yevgeny Zamyatin, James Joyce, Upton Sinclair


about this author

Eric Arthur Blair, known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. Noted as a novelist and critic as well as a political and cultural commentator, Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the 20th century. He is best known for two novels critical of totalitarianism in general, and Stalinism in particular: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Both were written and published towards the end of his life.




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1984 1984
by George Orwell
avg rating 4.02 — 167,476 ratings — published 1949
215 editions
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Animal Farm Animal Farm
by George Orwell
avg rating 3.72 — 170,017 ratings — published 1945
230 editions
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Animal Farm/1984 Animal Farm/1984
by George Orwell
avg rating 3.95 — 4,208 ratings — published 2003
18 editions
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Down and Out in Paris and Lond... Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell
avg rating 4.02 — 3,656 ratings — published 1933
35 editions
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Homage to Catalonia Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book)
by George Orwell
avg rating 4.15 — 2,205 ratings — published 1938
36 editions
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Burmese Days Burmese Days
by George Orwell
avg rating 3.76 — 1,066 ratings — published 1934
25 editions
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying Keep the Aspidistra Flying
by George Orwell
avg rating 3.88 — 877 ratings — published 1936
22 editions
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A Collection of Essays A Collection of Essays
by George Orwell
avg rating 4.30 — 629 ratings — published 1954
16 editions
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The Road to Wigan Pier The Road to Wigan Pier
by George Orwell
avg rating 3.82 — 656 ratings — published 1937
19 editions
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Shooting an Elephant Shooting an Elephant
by George Orwell
avg rating 4.17 — 539 ratings — published 1931
5 editions
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"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)
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"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "
George Orwell
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