George Orwell Summary

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Biographies (6)

1,230 words, approx. 5 pages
The British novelist and essayist George Orwell (1903-1950) is best known for his satirical novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four.George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair at Motihari, Bengal, In... Read more
10,314 words, approx. 35 pages
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
2,523 words, approx. 9 pages
George Orwell is most widely known today as the novelist who wrote Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), but in the 1930s and 1940s readers of left-wing intellectual periodicals and week... Read more
4,784 words, approx. 16 pages
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
4,889 words, approx. 17 pages
George Orwell gained an enduring international reputation with his two last works of fiction, the political fable Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (1945) and his near-future dystopia, Nineteen Eighty-Four (... Read more
10,847 words, approx. 37 pages
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