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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 · 1,158,922 ratings · 25,661 reviews · 101 distinct works

	Animal Farm 3.69 avg rating — 594,244 ratings — published 1945 — 292 editions	My rating:
	1984 4.00 avg rating — 521,729 ratings — published 1949 — 335 editions	My rating:
	Animal Farm & 1984 by George Orwell, Christopher Hitchens (Introduction) 3.95 avg rating — 10,297 ratings — published 1991 — 28 editions	My rating:
	Down and Out in Paris and London 4.03 avg rating — 9,219 ratings — published 1940 — 57 editions	My rating:
	Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, Lionel Trilling (Introduction) 4.13 avg rating — 5,341 ratings — published 1938 — 52 editions	My rating:
	Burmese Days 3.74 avg rating — 3,001 ratings — published 1934 — 51 editions	My rating:
	Keep the Aspidistra Flying 3.81 avg rating — 2,381 ratings — published 1936 — 35 editions	My rating:
	The Road to Wigan Pier 3.76 avg rating — 1,816 ratings — published 1936 — 29 editions	My rating:
	Shooting an Elephant 4.01 avg rating — 1,405 ratings — published 1931 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Collection of Essays 4.30 avg rating — 1,730 ratings — published 1954 — 38 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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The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi

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Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson

44 votes, 18.0%

Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood

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Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow

24 votes, 9.8%

Eon Eon, by Greg Bear

24 votes, 9.8%

1984, by George Orwell

23 votes, 9.4%

China Mountain Zhang, by Maureen F. McHugh

13 votes, 5.3%

Hammered, by Elizabeth Bear

11 votes, 4.5%

Dawn of Destiny, by Lee Stephen

10 votes, 4.1%

Life As We Knew It, by Susan Beth Pfeffer

9 votes, 3.7%

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