George Orwell Summary

Biography EssayGeorge Orwell's remarkable international reputation is primarily due to his last two novels, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which have spoken to the Cold War cons... Read more

George Orwell's remarkable international reputation is primarily due to his last two novels, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which have spoken to the Cold War consciousness with s... Read more

George Orwell's three major books of travel writing--Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), and Homage to Catalonia (1938)--revived the tradition of excursionary liter... Read more

    Eric Blair, best known as George Orwell in political and literary circles, was one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century. His clear and simple style of writing and h... Read more

Under the pseudonym George Orwell, Eric Arthur Blair has been established as one of the most prominent writers of the 1930s and 40s. His intelligent voice and satirical style, combined with his harsh... Read more

A political writer, as well as a novelist, George Orwell has achieved great recognition throughout the literary world. Perhaps most famous for his novels, Animal Fa... Read more

The writer of the essay "Decolonising the Mind," Ngugi wa Thiong'o, expresses his views that Kenyans had been stripped of their native languages and lost an important way to express themselves. In the... Read more