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George Orwellauthor profile |
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| born | June 25, 1903 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| died | January 21, 1950 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| gender | male | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Motihari, Bihar, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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about this author
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), 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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books by George Orwellcombine editionsavg rating: 3.97 | 111824 ratings | 103 distinct works
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quotes by George Orwell
"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
— George Orwell
— 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)
— George Orwell (1984)
"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
— George Orwell
— George Orwell